Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible.

What you have come to know, preserve by exercise; what you have not learned, seek to add to your knowledge; for it is as reprehensible to hear a profitable saying and not grasp it as to be offered a good gift by one's friends and not accept it.

Not all violence is equally reprehensible; not all wars are equally unjust.

It's reprehensible to exploit a person's gullibility.

Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.