What's the difference between disgraceful and reprehensible?

Disgraceful


Definition:

  • (a.) Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The speech also made a reference to the disgraced former cabinet minister Chris Huhne, with Ashdown telling delegates that when he first stood for parliament in Yeovil in the 1970s, the Liberal leader at the time, Jeremy Thorpe, was facing trial at the Old Bailey.
  • (2) As the Labour leadership accused the coalition of launching a smear campaign over the party's links with the disgraced chairman, a transcript of an interview with Balls in 2010 showed that he highlighted his role in helped to create Britain's "first ever 'super-mutual'".
  • (3) Miliband – sounding more animated than normal – hit back at the prime minister, saying: "What an absolute disgrace to describe talking about cancer patients in this country as a smokescreen."
  • (4) Silfen told Haaretz: “I missed a critical committee session that I needed to attend and was sent home in disgrace because the length of my dress didn’t suit them.
  • (5) 'Have a thick skin' – sex discrimination commissioner's advice to her successor Read more Labor said it was “a disgrace for women everywhere” that the government was delaying appointing a replacement for Elizabeth Broderick, the long-serving commissioner whose term expired four months ago.
  • (6) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
  • (7) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
  • (8) Disgraced former Labour MP Eric Joyce, who assaulted a colleague in a Commons bar in 2012, had his card blocked when he owed £12,919.61, and later had his salary docked.
  • (9) In a swipe at Corbyn, Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, addressing the meeting, said: “Never forget, the best way to represent and deliver for working people will always be from the government benches.” After the meeting, the former Labour MP Lord Watts confronted Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s head of communications, and told him he was “a disgrace”.
  • (10) Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been linked to paying a string of bribes during the Qatari’s failed bid to become Fifa president, with some linking his activities to the concurrent Qatar 2022 bid.
  • (11) The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was spared execution at a hearing last week, with a court in Hefei instead handing her the suspended penalty .
  • (12) After this disgraceful farce of wrongful blame (the spokespeople for the police and the NHS happy to tolerate, if not encourage, the misleading targeting of the social workers), the right questions are still being ignored.
  • (13) In the Commons, John McDonnell, the MP for Hayes and Harlington, covering Heathrow, was suspended for five days by the deputy speaker after he picked up the mace and shouted: "It is a disgrace."
  • (14) The extent and depth of political bias in the BBC is a matter of opinion, but this is a disgrace by any standard, however low.
  • (15) The bill was assisted along its way by the fact that one of its most prominent opponents was disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien .
  • (16) Analysts say Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s dictator, is waiting to see how the Trump administration shapes up and who replaces South Korea’s disgraced president, Park Geun-hye.
  • (17) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
  • (18) The senior Tory has acknowledged he became heated after he was seen shouting "you're a disgrace" at Tories and Liberal Democrats who failed to vote with the government.
  • (19) Speaking from her home in New Jersey, she said: "Any letting out of Megrahi would be a disgrace.
  • (20) Blood laced with disgrace flows from my hands, feet and side.

Reprehensible


Definition:

  • (a.) Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (2) Details of the episode in October 2011 surfaced publicly last summer when the Bank's executive director for markets, Paul Fisher, told MPs that claims about the "thoroughly reprehensible" allegations had been referred to the regulator.
  • (3) The authors urge that patients suffering from from facial paralysis should be referred to O.-R.-L. departments right from the start and not when all other methods of treatment have been tried, often with reprehensible empiricism, and found unsuccessful.
  • (4) And let me say that I find much of the media utterly reprehensible and in need of a new regulator that it can probably get away with setting up itself … Newspapers: Ever so 'umble, sir.
  • (5) By far the most shocking thing was that McBride was a civil servant at the time, acting in a highly political and thoroughly reprehensible manner.
  • (6) The dumping of excrement on the statue was “reprehensible and regrettable” and an investigation was under way, the university said in a statement last week.
  • (7) If you care about people on low incomes, if you care about refugees, if you care about tackling climate change, if you care about the fact that the NHS is chronically underfunded, about divisions, lack of opportunity, failure to maximise potential in the north, then backing a leadership which is going to fail to stand up for any of those causes is utterly reprehensible.
  • (8) Describing the award as “morally reprehensible” and calling for it to be rescinded, the petition has gathered more than 500 staff signatures.
  • (9) "It's reprehensible, and there's no room for grey areas," Miliband said.
  • (10) Like phone hacking or MPs' fiddled expenses, this is an issue that only needs to be described to seem reprehensible.
  • (11) The sectarian conflict responsible for much of the war's reprehensible human cost was caused in part by the occupying forces' division of the country's political system along sectarian lines.
  • (12) But corporations, which thrive on their sense of power and control, hate nothing more than having to say sorry unless they are forced to do so because they are squirming on the end of a hook for doing something particularly reprehensible.
  • (13) Jean Ping, head of the commission of the African Union continental grouping, said he was "deeply concerned by the reprehensible acts currently being perpetrated by some elements of the Malian army".
  • (14) Cable has alleged that his close friend leaked the ICM polling to the Guardian, describing it as "utterly reprehensible" and "totally unacceptable", and adding that there was no leadership issue.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Spicer on Assad regime: ‘Even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons’ Despite one more ineffective attempt to make things right (“Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable.”) Spicer’s combination of callousness and historical amnesia inspired a range of critics – from Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi to Steven Goldstein, director of the Anne Frank Center – to demand that he be fired.
  • (16) Turkey had last month accused Britain of a “reprehensible” delay in informing the Turkish authorities over the departure to its territory of the three teenage girls.
  • (17) And many, many other Americans feel the same way.” White House press secretary Josh Earnest called Trump’s remarks “incendiary” and “morally reprehensible”, adding: “What Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump’s anti-Muslim comments ‘disqualify him for president’, says White House .
  • (18) Bailey said it was "reprehensible" of George Osborne, the chancellor, to refuse to publicly debate the potential threats and refer to any deal as no more than "a commercial matter between the companies".
  • (19) Photograph: Paul McErlane Handing down his judgment in McCauley’s appeal last September, Sir Declan Morgan, the lord chief justice of Northern Ireland, was in agreement with Sampson: “The failure of the security service to disclose the tape to Mr Stalker and to provide it to the prosecution was reprehensible.” Furthermore, the deputy head of special branch had initially misled the director of public prosecutions by leading him to believe that there was no listening device in the hayshed.
  • (20) The events which took place on 17 and 18 February in Malakal Protection of Civilians site are utterly reprehensible,” said Eugene Owusu, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan.