reprobate
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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
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
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
When we remember Alex Higgins, his fellow snooker genius and reprobate who died in 2010, White suggests that losing their epic semi-final at the worlds might have saved him.
From The Guardian • Apr. 23, 2019
“He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke,” Grandma said.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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