reprobate

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

She ended by citing Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary as an example of the power of the reprobate imagination.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 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

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

The series’s theme was how a settlement full of disorderly reprobates, exiles and rejects builds a society.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2019

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

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

Whilst the Catholic religion was reprobated, Catholic customs springing out of that religion do not seem to have called forth any censure.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

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

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 Sellar, W. Y.

The British commander reprobated the death of Captain Huddy, and broke up the board.

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

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 Morse, John T. (John Torrey)

In the spectacle of these Christians reprobating each others' creeds Goethe saw a theme for a moral satire which, fragment as it is, takes its place with the most powerful efforts of his genius.

From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume

This he did for the purpose of discountenancing and reprobating the cry that had been raised of "Peace and a large loaf."

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Hunt, Henry

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

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