
Day 1,119: reprehensible
His conduct, though morally reprehensible, is not a crime.
Artwork of the day
The Captivity is as Barbarous as the Crime
Francisco Goya
Original Title: El cautiverio es tan bárbara como la delincuencia
Date: c.1815
Style: Romanticism
Genre: caricature
Media: etching, paper
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 cm
Word of the day
reprehensible: deserving blame; recognized as bad
Quote of the day
“For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible”
― Arthur Schopenhauer