Definition of Reprehensively

1. Adverb. In a shameful manner. "The garden was criminally neglected"

Exact synonyms: Criminally
Partainyms: Criminal, Reprehensible

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprehensively

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reprefe
reprehend
reprehended
reprehender
reprehenders
reprehending
reprehends
reprehensibility
reprehensible
reprehensibles
reprehensibly
reprehension
reprehensions
reprehensive
reprehensively (current term)
reprehensory
repreparation
reprepare
represent
representability
representable
representable functor
representable functors
representamen
representamina
representance
representant
representants
representation

Literary usage of Reprehensively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... reprehensively, what the new police was doing ; jut a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have seen too ..."

2. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
"... in short, that they are my independent "personal judgments," expressed in terms of positive conviction, and therefore reprehensively indicative of a ..."

3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1893)
"towards the close of 1778, speaks reprehensively of the free and open intercourse with New York which, on his arrival at ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"She looked at me reprehensively. "You are wrong — quite wrong," she said. " I always tell my cook, ' The blood must follow the knife. ..."

5. The Wallet of Time: Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical by William Winter (1913)
"... judgments," expressed in terms of positive conviction, and therefore reprehensively indicative of a ..."

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