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

Mejia somehow kept a quiet presence locally until the beginning of 2021, when activists launched an offensive against the reprobate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021

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

“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

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

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

He was exceedingly cautious in speaking, seldom uttering a word without reflection and was never heard to speak ill of any one and reprobated the man or woman who indulged themselves in this infirmity.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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 Morford, Henry

The deceptions usually practised are altogether to be reprobated.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet

So that the desire of dominion, which was once frankly150 confessed or boasted of as a heroic passion, is now sternly reprobated or cunningly disclaimed.

From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by Ruskin, John

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

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 Chavasse, Pye Henry

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

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

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

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 More, Hannah

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 Morley, John