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

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

If anyone can persuade me and my fellow fossil fuel reprobates to give up our gas-powered lawnmowers, luminous bumpers and fleets of carburetor-powered cars, it’s him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

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

How that added up to Lord Byron — among the greatest poets and reprobates of the age — is unclear.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018

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

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

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

As often as they returned from our upper hemisphere, they reprobated our ambition, infidelities, and inconstancies. 

From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies

Restrictions and anathemas were of no avail; and Greek ideas were never so attractive as when they had been reprobated by Cato and his friends.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

I know not with what feelings the public mind will contemplate the fact recorded in this sketch; but I hope, most devoutly, that it will be universally reprobated.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

The four following essays were published eighteen months ago in the Cornhill Magazine, and were reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with.

From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

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 Charles Greville

How very different it was to pass over without reprobating a title bestowed in documents which came before it, from itself conferring that title, is plain at once.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

But I must not myself commit the very error I am reprobating.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

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

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 J. L. (John Lyle) Morison