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

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

“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

Danny Boyle revisits his gleeful Scottish reprobates in middle age in “T2 Trainspotting.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 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

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 John Ruskin

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

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 Bernhard Severin Ingemann

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

I agree most entirely with Fitzgibbon, in reprobating that some lex et consuetudo Parliament, which is to supersede the good old common law of the land.

From Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

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

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 Pye Henry Chavasse

The high contracting parties join in reprobating any other than an entirely voluntary emigration.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

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