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

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

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

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

Danny Boyle revisits his gleeful Scottish reprobates in middle age in “T2 Trainspotting.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017

Every member of Phippsburg’s First Congregational—as well as lost reprobates from other denominations—had gathered to greet the new minister and his family.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The insufficiency and audacity of human reason were reprobated by the antagonists of Lucretius as they often are in the present day.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar

Assembling the people, he reprobated in strong terms the prevailing heresy.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

Oh, overweening pride of Margaret Hayley, that once had been her most marked characteristic, now cast away like a thing to be loathed and reprobated!

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

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

When he announced his intention of removing her from the capital, the city mob, who loved the Macedonian house, and laughed at rather than reprobated the foibles of Zoe, took arms to defend their mistress.

From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman

On the whole Mr. Spectator has perhaps done wisely in humouring as well as reprobating.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

It was in vain that the Muftis interposed, reprobating so great a profanation, and uttering warnings as to its consequences.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

These were followed by more, over the signature of Columbus, and afterward by still more in the name of Barnevelt, all strongly reprobating the course of the crazy-headed foreigner.

From John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series by John T. (John Torrey) Morse

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

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