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Recent Examples of reprehension Putin is a formidable opponent who is worthy of reprehension. Arkansas Online, 17 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reprehension
Noun
  • Democrats in Congress appeared unified in their condemnation of the Oval Office meeting, viewing Trump and Vance's attacks on Zelenskyy as either aiding Putin or seeking to impress him.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The massacres brought condemnations from the U.S. and Israel, while the European Union sought to retain a neutral stance.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Boebert’s office did not comment Tuesday but referenced a Monday post on X in which Boebert addressed the censure resolution by mocking Houlahan.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Libby represents more than 9,000 constituents in Maine's House District 90, and six of them have signed onto the lawsuit as plaintiffs because the censure has impeded her ability to help carry out other legislative actions to serve those constituents.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Then came subsequent criticism about her selection for the 2024 Women’s Olympic team – especially considering Caitlin Clark’s absence – followed by her Las Vegas Aces’ loss in the 2024 WNBA Finals.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
  • There have been many waves of criticism, pointing out the impossibility of carrying out the test in a precise or useful way.
    Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Its political figures — particularly Gov. Gavin Newsom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Senator-elect Adam Schiff — have sought and achieved notoriety for their public denunciations of Trump.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Their desire for freedom was at the same time a denunciation of serfdom.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • President Alejandro Giammattei was deeply unpopular at home, but other than occasional statements of reprobation from the United States and Europe, had managed to consolidate his control of the justice system with little consequence.
    Sonia Pérez D. and Christopher Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
  • Fast forward a few years, and reprobation of Walmart’s sharp tactics has faded.
    Marc Levinson, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • Once-proud Tesla owners are struggling to ditch their vehicles to escape the social opprobrium associated with Musk’s role in the Department of Government Efficiency, according to the New York Times.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Such favoritism has also incurred the opprobrium of the right.
    Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 25 July 2024
Noun
  • Far more overtly than in McGahern’s previous novels, the reproaches in The Pornographer extend to the hypocrisies of Irish society.
    Sam Sacks, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In one fell swoop, that verdict rejected decades of Madigan and his loyalists polishing the image of the once-mighty speaker as a politician above reproach, a statesman who never crossed the line, a lawyer with a personal code of conduct that kept him on the straight and narrow.
    Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025

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“Reprehension.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reprehension. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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