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

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

Is it really critical which exemplary reprobate you have worked with?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 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

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

In town again to sell the new film, the 60-year-old filmmaker reflected on the enduring appeal of “Trainspotting’s” lovable reprobates, and the new film’s theme of aging.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 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

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

There was no offense in the southern colonies more deplored, more reprobated, more legislated against than what was known as “ingrossing, forestalling, or regrating.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle

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

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 master is reprobated who will divide families.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge

It may be remembered that all the governors of the period agreed in reprobating the factiousness and pettiness of Canadian party politics.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

Can a theory which the universal Intelligence thus agrees in reprobating, as involving the most horrid absurdity and tyranny conceivable, be the only true one?

From Doctrine of the Will by Asa Mahan

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

The high contracting parties join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary emigration.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

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 Wilkie Collins