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Reprehensibly

Definition: Reprehensibly

Reprehensibly

Adverb

1. In a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Reprehensibly

Synonym: culpably (adv). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Reprehensibly

"Reprehensibly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Reprehensibly" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Reprehensibly

Language Translations for "reprehensibly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

trestuhodnì. (various references)

   

German

  

tadelnswerte. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αξιομέμπτωσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eprehensiblyray

   

Spanish

  

censurablemente. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

непорядно. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Reprehensibly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-h-i-l-n-p-r-r-s-y"

-2 letters: replenisher.

-3 letters: prehensile, sheepberry.

-4 letters: biphenyls, eyeliners, pelerines, replenish, reserpine, spleenier.

-5 letters: beelines, berlines, beryline, biphenyl, byliners, ensphere, errhines, eyeliner, insphere, pelerine, pilsener, preeners, prerinse, repiners, repliers, ripeners, serenely, sheenier, sleepier, spherier.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-h-i-l-n-p-r-r-s-y"
 

+3 letters: reprehensibility.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Reprehensibly


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 70 72 65 68 65 6E 73 69 62 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01100010 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0070 0072 0065 0068 0065 006E 0073 0069 0062 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52718284717471808575687891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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