reprobate

The film introduces us to Ricky Bobby’s family with a gross-out splat, implying the soon-to-be stock car racer was born in the back of a speeding Chevelle driven by his reprobate father.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The other is “Fleabag”: Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acidic reprobate, Ms. Weisz’s character is unconstrained by a fourth wall, sharing with us, reflecting, observing, making wisecracks but not being particularly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Someone who’s rich enough to buy an NBA franchise has the right to get away with being a reprobate and a bully.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022

Mejia somehow kept a quiet presence locally until the beginning of 2021, when activists launched an offensive against the reprobate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021

“He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke,” Grandma said.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

It's a bar-setting best for the series, if not TV generally, that also reminds us that we're rooting for absolute reprobates.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2022

It is not merely Falstaff she has in mind when demonstrating, in this healing adaptation, that even the worst old reprobates can be taught a lesson and welcomed back into the family.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

Cole was also the primary source for Stephen Davis’s 1985 biography “Hammer of the Gods,” a book that solidified the posthumous image of Led Zeppelin as heathen reprobates.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2018

The lines are long, especially if you're trying to get there before the 11:30 cutoff for breakfast specials, and the business is geared toward families, not reprobates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017

“Those old reprobates, they live in my building, you know...”

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The four following essays were published eighteen months ago in the Cornhill Magazine, and were reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

The exuberant later style that resulted from a too ardent application of the principles of Michelangelo and is known as Baroque, though generally reprobated at present, must not be too sweepingly condemned.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins

There was no doubt but that the viands which were publicly reprobated were privately enjoyed.

From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

This financial union of the States was reprobated not only on the floor of Congress, but in different parts of the Union, as fraught with political evil.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

Some reprobated the sight of the priestly character, or the “fols clers,” “mad clerks,” in their grotesque disguisings; if they were sanctioned by one pope, they were condemned by another.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

But, while reprobating commerce with unhallowed spirits, intercourse with spirits sanctioned by the Church was believed to be almost equally possible, and was encouraged as much as the other was denounced.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland

I cannot refrain from reprobating the too common practice among parents of bringing up their boys to the professions.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse

I told him generally in the sarcastic or reprobating tone he had used, and particularly in his personal attack on the Duke for holding the offices.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Charles Greville

This he did for the purpose of discountenancing and reprobating the cry that had been raised of "Peace and a large loaf."

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

In the spectacle of these Christians reprobating each others' creeds Goethe saw a theme for a moral satire which, fragment as it is, takes its place with the most powerful efforts of his genius.

From The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown