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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

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

Throughout the interview he describes himself, variously, as the "serial pest nuisance of Melbourne" and "an old reprobate, easily forgiven".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019

Was Raymond a normal teenager or a lawless reprobate, as some claimed?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019

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

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

If anyone can persuade me and my fellow fossil fuel reprobates to give up our gas-powered lawnmowers, luminous bumpers and fleets of carburetor-powered cars, it’s him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

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

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

Vigilantes “drought shamed” reprobates who maintained verdant lawns.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 2, 2016

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

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Stubborn—cruel often at times as he was—she nevertheless felt and knew that while he reprobated and deplored her seeming lightness of character, yet deep in his soul he still held her very dear.

From The Tigress by Warner, Anne

I know not with what feelings the public mind will contemplate the fact recorded in this sketch; but I hope, most devoutly, that it will be universally reprobated.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.

Though no one had a deeper respect for vital piety than he, no one more bitterly reprobated that puritanic fanaticism that saw sin and wrong-doing in innocent recreation and relaxation.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

After the crumbling of the Sampson fortune, Old Chester had to plan for Lydia, and take care of her, and give her its "plain sewing"; so, naturally, William was reprobated.

From Dr. Lavendar's People by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

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 Irving, Washington

Any one reprobating in any shape, pleasure as such, is a partisan of this principle.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

The high contracting parties, therefore, join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary immigration for these purposes.

From The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868 by Twain, Mark

I reprobated it at the time, and I wish to be understood as reprobating it once more on this occasion.

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

His charity never blunted the edge of his justice, nor prevented him from reprobating the faults of the personages who had touched his heart.

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

With the exception of the Cardinal of Lorraine, they were well-nigh unanimous in reprobating a venture from which they apprehended only disaster.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn