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

He’s a reprobate with no confidence in grace, reduced to keeping his spirit afloat with a mixture of self-deprecating irony and the affectations of civility.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2020

“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

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

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

“Those old reprobates, they live in my building, you know...”

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

The marsk and the other outlaws he reprobated in the strongest terms, and cordially approved of all the measures which the council had taken to defend the country against the Norwegians.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

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 breach of the sanctities of family life is invariably reprobated.

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

Some reprobated the sight of the priestly character, or the “fols clers,” “mad clerks,” in their grotesque disguisings; if they were sanctioned by one pope, they were condemned by another.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The deceptions usually practised are altogether to be reprobated.

From Household Education by Harriet Martineau

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

Our author then, after reprobating this idea, endeavours to explain the appearance here examined by the constant though imperceptible operation of springs.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton

I cannot refrain from reprobating the too common practice among parents of bringing up their boys to the professions.

From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse

Mr Hume has thought proper to make a motion in the House of Commons, reprobating this act as one of murder.

From Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

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