[ UK /ɹɪpɹˈɒbe‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɛpɹɔbeɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. express strong disapproval of
    We condemn the racism in South Africa
    These ideas were reprobated
  2. reject (documents) as invalid
  3. abandon to eternal damnation
    God reprobated the unrepenting sinner
NOUN
  1. a person without moral scruples
ADJECTIVE
  1. deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
    depraved criminals
    a perverted sense of loyalty
    the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
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How To Use reprobate In A Sentence

  • This place started promisingly, but now they let too many reprobates in.
  • Freudo, on the other hand, is determined to be a more serious, sensual escape behind the seemingly sanguine outer layer of society and into its reprobate nether regions.
  • Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
  • That might at least indicate they were unsure of their strength since, King claimed, they had previously “reprobated the Suggestion of Amendments” and insisted on “a total Rejection of the Constitution.” Ratification
  • Now imagine some chavvy little git walks up and slaps you across the face, all the while being filmed by his reprobate chum on his new camera phone.
  • In Elizabethan England, the public generally regarded playwrights and actors as reprobates and scapegraces; lords and ladies risked their reputations by hobnobbing with dramatists and deuteragonists.
  • Baker observes but too truly, that the "State of Innocence" recals the idea reprobated by Marvell in his address to Milton: The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
  • Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
  • Surely it is a reprobate sense, a spirit of frenzy and of stupor, which is withheld from any daring attempt, only by a fear of the shame of men; while the fear of divine judgment is trodden under foot. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • There is a further hint that bustle and business are the properties of the older, reprobate drama.
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