Reprovable vs Reprehensible – What’s the difference?

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Reprovable vs Reprehensible - What's the difference?
Reprovable is a synonym of reprehensible. As adjectives the difference between reprovable and reprehensible is that reprovable is reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure while reprehensible is reprehensible.

reprovable

English

Adjective

(en adjective )

  • reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
    • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • *{{quote-book

    • , year=2004
    , author=Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
    , title=The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village
    , chapter=9
    , isbn=0415330459
    , page=429
    , passage=Feeling hungry, she wanted to ask for food (an unthinkable action in conscious behavior) and so knocked on the door, but when nobody answered she entered the house (again a reprovable action) and saw a bearded man sitting in the single room.}}

    Derived terms

    * reprovableness
    * reprovably

    reprehensible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • Blameworthy, censurable, guilty.
  • Deserving of reprehension.
  • * 1998 , Greg Morrow and Dylan Verheul, ” The Sandman Annotations, Sandman 14
    • Scarlett O’Hara was the heroine of the novel/movie Gone with the Wind” and the reprehensible sequel ”Scarlett .

    Related terms

    * reprehensibility
    * reprehend
    * irreprehensible
    * reprehension

    Synonyms

    * at fault, deplorable, remiss

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A reprehensible person; a villain.

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