reprehensiblyadv.

1609 R. Parsons Quiet Reckoning v. 331 The selfe same sentence may be vsed by diuers in seuerall senses, laudably in the one, and reprehensibly in the other, as haile Maister was to Christ by the Disciples, and by the Pharisies.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues ii. 261 They..are upon their own cost and charges more reprehensibly wicked then they that never came within any capacity of being vertuous.

1778 W. Burgh Inq. Belief Christians iv. 399 If, however, I be in an errour, it is the Historian himself who is to blame for having reprehensibly omitted such a reference to his authority as might serve to facilitate enquiry.

1797 E. Parsons Old Friend with New Face I. 232 She..has very reprehensibly sported her opinions in all circles of our general acquaintance.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 502 Even those laws..were in his judgment reprehensibly lenient.

1885 Truth 11 June 932/1 It was reprehensibly foolish and reckless.

1936 Times 30 Apr. 14/5 The B.B.C. was reprehensibly autocratic.

1976 J. Lees-Milne Diary 16 Mar. in Through Wood & Dale (2001) 84 Victor Emmanuel had been reprehensibly weak with Mussolini.

2007 T. Reeves Mr Sin ii. 39 Saffron, his relatives and anyone associated with him should be barred from operating in the liquor trade in which he had behaved so reprehensibly.