How To Use Reprobate In A Sentence
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This place started promisingly, but now they let too many reprobates in.
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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.
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Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
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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
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There is a further hint that bustle and business are the properties of the older, reprobate drama.
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I would tell you to bring her along, but the reprobates aren't fond of kids.
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The vicarious thrill of teaching the reprobate or rapscallion a thing or two fueled anew the public love affair with the deadly detective, best exampled by S.W.A.T.
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Other people are sensibly heading to work and you feel like a lowlife reprobate skulking home after a debauch.
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The church court, in other words, did not search for and destroy sexual reprobates, rather it relied on the active participation of the community.
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Let India reclaim itself from the criminals and outlaws, reprobates and renegades.
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The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
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Later, when he's brought to her attention for poaching game birds on her property, she devises a very unique punishment for the old reprobate.
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Just as one leather-jacketed, slouching renegade by name of Jim Steel took me under his musical wing, to open my ears to the glories of The Stooges, The Ramones, Radio Birdman and suchlike, it was one surgical-gowned, growling reprobate by name of Fergus Bannon who opened up my eyes, searing his scribblings on the inside of my skull -- right at the back, by the medulla oblongata, the snake-brain.
Archive 2009-12-01
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As for Cursecowl, the invincible reprobate, so ashamed was he of his infamous conduct, that he did not dare, for the life in his body, to show himself before my shop-window -- far less in my presence -- for more than a week; yet, would ye believe it! he made a perfect farce of the whole business among his own wauf cronies; and, instead of repentance, I verily believe, would not have cared twopence to have played me the same pliskie that he did my douce and worthy friend.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Every time I see you, you're drunk, you old reprobate.
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Instead, he cursed, caroused and shocked moviegoers as the hard-drinking reprobate coach and player for a ragtag hockey team in 1977's Slap Shot, one of the rowdiest, crudest, funniest and most scathingly honest sports comedies ever.
Paul Newman: A rare breed
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Lucilius vilified reprobate consulars such as Lucius Opimius and Gaius Papirius Carbo, also undisciplined tribes and dishonest political lobbying.
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Reprobates and riff raff who are delinquent in shouldering their obligations to the state will find themselves here, and soon.
Archive 2007-10-01
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He is the only Chancery Judge there and what he is saying, I think, at 114 is you cannot approbate and reprobate.
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A creed or confession of faith is an ecclesiastical document -- the mind and will of some synod or council possessing authority -- as a term of communion by which persons and opinions are to be tested, approbated or reprobated.
The Last Reformation
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Jonson's fault that many of his successors did precisely the thing that he had reprobated, that is, degrade the humour: into an oddity of speech, an eccentricity of manner, of dress, or cut of beard.
Every Man in His Humor
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They're all hypocrites, liars and reprobates.
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Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.
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But he knew the kid was a reprobate, and his will says nothing about disinheriting him for bad behavior.
Why Trial Lawyers Say It Better
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Sometimes, misguided by a thread or finger, a digital doll finds itself wandering over to the dark side of show business and falling under the spell of the reprobate members of the manipulated.
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Disunion was less to be feared as a result of proposing prior amendments to the Constitution, he said, than from “the adoption of a system reprobated by some, and allowed by all to be defective.”
Ratification
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So it's only natural that when they hit too close to home, when they hold a mirror up to the panting demographic and showcase people's reprobate and mercenary nature, the target should retaliate.
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By the end of the film, both the Union troops and the scroungy squad of reprobates Dundee has mustered look toward Tyreen for leadership.
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There's the drunken reprobate attorney and confidant, Harry Rex.
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If the pub had not been the favoured haunt of the living dead, a pasty faced bunch of assorted reprobates and alcoholics, he would have quite liked it.
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The truth is that in an age of huge political upheaval, those who lived long enough to welcome the restoration of the monarchy, such as the disfigured William Davenant or Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, did at least have one thing in common: They were survivors rather than reprobates.
Pens at the Ready
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Your brain should ache, you reprobate, you turncoat, for daring to meddle in things that are beyond you!
CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
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These ideas were reprobated
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a crapulous old reprobate
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Although not exactly a premier stopping point, it does serve as a dumping ground for the reprobates of the universe.
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Whereupon he shortly sharked up a list of landless reprobates, Kshatriyas at a loose end, for food and diet; and the enterprise with a stomach in't was, as soon as Alexander's back was turned, to drive out the Macedonian garrisons.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
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At odds with the establishment, he was painted as a reprobate - he did marry 27 nightclub dancers - but Ray sees him as a hero.
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the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
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I began to stare at him as if he were a reprobate, but I couldn't believe it.
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Feeling every bit the reprobate she let herself into the flat.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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You will grow up to be quite a reprobate, my scandalous pup—a favourite with the ladies … and the gentlemen, he predicted in a sibylline voice.
Exit the Actress
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He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew.
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However they range from the model of rectitude to the reprobate, from the intellectual to the ignorant, we vary more.
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reprobated" in addresses by John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and
The Age of the Reformation
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After all, as a conservative of fairly recent vintage, I've seen how easy it is for liberals, assisted by a compliant press, to cast ideological foes as moral reprobates and thus avoid engaging their ideas.
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On a true appreciation of the position, this is not a case in which it can be said that the respondent company has elected between two inconsistent remedies; nor that it has sought to approbate and reprobate.
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God reprobated the unrepenting sinner
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Reprobates from the scuzzy end of showbiz and their ambisextrous pals arrive to mess the night away.
Times, Sunday Times
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He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew.
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The first half of the film consists of SS officers observing potential recruits in all manner of borderline reprobate acts.
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When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.
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He spent his teenage years in Lafayette, Indiana, an angsty reprobate and hardened juvenile delinquent.
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This is stolen from his cottage by the squire's reprobate son Dunstan Cass, who disappears.
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Things actually have gotten better, and not just because we are no longer pictured exclusively as wretched suicides and guilt-ridden reprobates.
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Apol. xxxv., “publici hostes”; xxxvii., “hostes maluistis vocare generis humani Christianos” (you prefer to call Christians the enemies of the human race); Minuc., x., “pravae religionis obscuritas”; viii., “homines deploratae, inlicitae ac desperatae factionis” (reprobate characters, belonging to an unlawful and desperate faction); “plebs profanae coniurationis”; ix., “sacraria taeterrima impiae citionis” (abominable shrines of an impious assembly); “eruenda et execranda consensio” (a confederacy to be rooted out and detested).
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
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The bigger thing for people to understand when is you put it on the unsubstantiated word of a reprobate witness who's getting "bribed" -- quote unquote -- by the government, paid by the government, and the 10th circuit mentioned that.
CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2003
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That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities!
The Red Rover
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Laying over on his long journey south, Grayson found that the failure to decide the location of the future capital, in whatever location, Pennsylvania or the Potomac, “is much reprobated in this City”; much of that opprobrium, naturally, fell on Morris.
Robert Morris
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And strangely enough, she begun to get back her strength from that very moment -- seeing that exclusive and well-known young debby-tant consorting in public with the reprobates.
Somewhere in Red Gap
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Which that I may do to your edification, I shall First shew you what this word reprobation signifieth in the general, as it concerneth persons temporary and visibly reprobate: Second, more particularly, as it concerneth persons that are eternally and invisibly reprobate.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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I returned home, not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned, not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.
Chapter 3
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I returned home, not disappointed, for I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor had so strongly reprobated; but I did not feel much inclined to study the books which I had procured at his recommendation.
Chapter 2
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They might be pirates, they might be reprobates, they might have picked the pockets of poor bluesmen and ignorant English kids, but at least they were dedicated to music.
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Nevertheless suspicion bred credulity, and society's reprobates could not be presumed unavailable for the purposes of prison plotters.
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The woman is not only dominated, but reprobate, not only impotent, but cursed.
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The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
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An old woman, called Williamson, a sad reprobate, in attempting to do so, set her foot within the fender, which the captain had converted into a repository for empty glass bottles; the smash that ensued was echoed by a shriek from the whole party.
Roughing It in the Bush
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It was he, too, who laid before Lady Southdown the great advantages which might occur from an intimacy between her family and Miss Crawley, advantages both worldly and spiritual, he said: for Miss Crawley was now quite alone; the monstrous dissipation and alliance of his brother Rawdon had estranged her affections from that reprobate young man; the greedy tyranny and avarice of Mrs. Bute Crawley had caused the old lady to revolt against the exorbitant pretensions of that part of the family; and though he himself had held off all his life from cultivating Miss Crawleys friendship, with perhaps an improper pride, he thought now that every becoming means should be taken, both to save her soul from perdition, and to secure her fortune to himself as the head of the house of Crawley.
XXXIII. In Which Miss Crawley’s Relations Are Very Anxious about Her
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The refusal to pray for an unbelieving kindred is justified, according to Mahomet, by the duty of a prophet, and the example of Abraham, who reprobated his own father as an enemy of God.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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“And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Even among these reprobates, the 1996 federal welfare reform law imposed time limits, meaning their little joyrides won't last.
$69 Million In California Welfare Money Spent Out Of State
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He spent his teenage years in Lafayette, Indiana, an angsty reprobate and hardened juvenile delinquent.
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Church of Rome condemneth us, we likewise them; the sub-reformists and sectaries sentence the doctrine of our Church as damnable; the atomist, or familist, reprobates all these; and all these them again.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation
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Such observations are, of course, true and we economists often deserve such a back-of-the-hand treatment, even by sinners and reprobates from other social science disciplines.
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Feeling every bit the reprobate she let herself into the flat.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Nevermind that McNuts 'campaign is the scuzziest I've ever seen, it is ill conceived, poorly executed and managed by a bunch of toothless reprobates.
Obama And McCain Trade New Attack Ads
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In each case, while Joe seems to be the catalyst, we soon see that it is the internal flaws that each individual carries that result in their reprobate behavior.
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You want to approbate and reprobate, as it were.