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Reprobate

noun

A person without moral scruples. Synonym: miscreant.

verb

(past & past part. reprobated; pres. part. reprobating)

Reject (documents) as invalid.

Abandon to eternal damnation.

Express strong disapproval of. Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate. "These ideas were reprobated"

adjective

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good. Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted. "A perverted sense of loyalty" , "The reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"

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"Reprobate" Quotes from Famous Books

... that live in the moat of the Chateau de Miramel (in the zone of the armies in France) are of an age and ugliness incredible and of a superlative cynicism. One of them—local tradition pointed to a one-eyed old reprobate with a yellow face—is the richer these hundred years past by an ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Oct. 17, 1917 • Various

... a sudden full stop in her surprise. This cousinly greeting from the village reprobate was as exciting and as inexplicable as ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... of brass, to lie all day and night alone with the dead persecutor; and other lads were far from emulating him in courage. When a man's soul is certainly in hell, his body will scarce lie quiet in a tomb, however costly; some time or other the door must open, and the reprobate come forth in the abhorred garments of the grave. It was thought a high piece of prowess to knock at the Lord Advocate's mausoleum and challenge him to appear. "Bluidy Mackenzie, come oot if ye daur!" sang the foolhardy urchins. But Sir George had other affairs on ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... had the management of your son, sir, and I will manage mine," she said. "I will see that he does not grow up a reprobate or a Papist, but at least he shall grow up a man, and his life shall not be as hateful as mine is, if I ...

— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty

... his servile powers, Who, flatter'd by their leader's jocund show, Stuff up his lust, as minutes fill up hours; And as their captain, so their pride doth grow. Paying more slavish tribute than they owe. By reprobate desire thus madly led, The Roman lord ...

— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]

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