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

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

Was Raymond a normal teenager or a lawless reprobate, as some claimed?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019

“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

It is not merely Falstaff she has in mind when demonstrating, in this healing adaptation, that even the worst old reprobates can be taught a lesson and welcomed back into the family.

From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

When he announced his intention of removing her from the capital, the city mob, who loved the Macedonian house, and laughed at rather than reprobated the foibles of Zoe, took arms to defend their mistress.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

That these slanders were the voice of fanaticism and not of mere hatred was not understood; that they were reprobated by the better elements of the North was not believed.

From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by Larus, John Rouse

The pride which, if I considered it at all as an error, I accounted the 'glorious fault' of noble minds, was reprobated as an impious absurdity.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

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 Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

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 Disraeli, Isaac

I told him generally in the sarcastic or reprobating tone he had used, and particularly in his personal attack on the Duke for holding the offices.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles

Any one reprobating in any shape, pleasure as such, is a partisan of this principle.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

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

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

It may be remembered that all the governors of the period agreed in reprobating the factiousness and pettiness of Canadian party politics.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by Morison, J. L. (John Lyle)