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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The “big swollen gambler,” as Carlyle calls him in one of the Latter-Day Pamphlets, was savagely and excessively reprobated by the world which had blindly believed in his golden prophecies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

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

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

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

How very different it was to pass over without reprobating a title bestowed in documents which came before it, from itself conferring that title, is plain at once.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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