reprehensive

adj

1. Containing reprehension or reproof.

   “Christ's reply ; in which , by a reprehensive shortness , he both clears the man's innocence , and vindicates God's proceedings , and so states them both upon a right foundation”

   “He stops at Winna's reprehensive stare.”

   “By the last two periods of the corpus, indeed, craindre deveolps a reprehensive interpretation, arising with certain specific contextual factors to yield a flavor of reproach (or apology).”

2. Reprehensible.

   “Well, there would not be anything particularly reprehensive in a plaintiff wanting to go to a forum where the verdict would be larger.”

   “But today in South Africa, a Black Christ is politically offensive; today in England a Black God is theatrically reprehensive; today in the United States, the only white-approved dark deity is Marc Connelly's De Lawd.”

   “She added, 'Räsänen claims homosexuality is a negative and reprehensive personal attribute and identity, and that all homosexuals are inferior as human beings.'”