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

Castleberry can make you wonder which reprobate to care about most, which sin causes the most harm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

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

“He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke,” Grandma said.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

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

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

Baseball catches just a handful of reprobates each year.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 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

After the crumbling of the Sampson fortune, Old Chester had to plan for Lydia, and take care of her, and give her its "plain sewing"; so, naturally, William was reprobated.

From Dr. Lavendar's People by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

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

As often as they returned from our hemisphere, they reprobated our ambition, infidelities, and inconstancies; and though they had no form of public worship, were, it seems, strict lovers and reverers of truth.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

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

Restrictions and anathemas were of no avail; and Greek ideas were never so attractive as when they had been reprobated by Cato and his friends.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

It soon went farther, and became vehement in reprobating them as scandalous and dangerous publications.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

The high contracting parties, therefore, join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary immigration for these purposes.

From The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868 by Mark Twain

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

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 James Bryce, Viscount Bryce

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