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

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

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

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

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

I am entirely of opinion that such a law is highly to be reprobated in a civil point of view; but in what concerns religion, let each man's conscience take care of itself.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

Oh, overweening pride of Margaret Hayley, that once had been her most marked characteristic, now cast away like a thing to be loathed and reprobated!

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

Any breach of the sanctities of family life is invariably reprobated.

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

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 Henry Glassford Bell

The most ascetic Christians began to question the legality of second marriages on the part of either sex, as even paganism had often reprobated second marriages of women.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

On the whole Mr. Spectator has perhaps done wisely in humouring as well as reprobating.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

While every one agrees in reprobating wicked actions, few, comparatively, are aware of the natural and habitual evil which lurks in the heart.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

Grave points of law were raised, but Mr. Gladstone, though warmly reprobating the prime minister's recommendation of a divine so sure to raise the hurricane, took no leading part in the strife that followed.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley

We saw them join in reprobating the Address to the Prince Regent proposed by Sir Francis Burdett.

From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 by Henry Hunt

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