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

Both of those reprobates have attracted a following of immense numbers of people — many who simply don't get it.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2022

How that added up to Lord Byron — among the greatest poets and reprobates of the age — is unclear.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018

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 morals of these circles, so often bitterly reprobated, were, it appears, no worse than they usually are among mere pleasure-seekers.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

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

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 William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

I am entirely of opinion that such a law is highly to be reprobated in a civil point of view; but in what concerns religion, let each man's conscience take care of itself.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

Only his daughter remained, the poor, lost, reprobated being, whom he was willing to curse, but whom he could not bear to believe suffering.

From The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life by Anna Katharine Green

But I must not myself commit the very error I am reprobating.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

He was once reprobating the introduction of all bull and bear similes into poetry.

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle

They grew uneasy, and their doubts of success were increased by addresses sent from the seamen of the channel fleet, severely reprobating their conduct.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

We saw them join in reprobating the Address to the Prince Regent proposed by Sir Francis Burdett.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Henry Hunt

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

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain