reprovable

English

Etymology

reprove +‎ -able? Compare French réprouvable.

Adjective

reprovable (comparative more reprovable, superlative most reprovable)

1. reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
   • 1678, Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC:

     Some great examples we find in story , and their names are remembered in honour ; but we can make no judgment of them , but that their zeal was reprovable for its intemperance , though it had excellency in the matter of the passion

   • 2004, Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, chapter 9, in The People of Aritama: The Cultural Personality of a Columbian Mestizo Village, →ISBN, page 429:

     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