as in corrupt
having or showing lowered moral character or standards
a reprobate judge who could be bribed, and often with astonishing ease
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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
a program for rehabilitating hard-core reprobates and turning them into hard-working, law-abiding citizens
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as in to reject
to be unwilling to grant
the board will most likely reprobate the request for parole
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as in to refuse
to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to
without hesitation she reprobated such an indecent idea
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as in to denounce
to declare to be morally wrong or evil
spent much of her talk reprobating the callous indifference of a materialistic society to the suffering of people in the third world
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Recent Examples of reprobate
Armond White,
National Review,
6 Apr. 2022
That’s when Regina’s sardonic sister (Wanda Skyes, the show’s co-creator) steps in and lets him and his reprobate pals have it.
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Jeanne Jakle,
San Antonio Express-News,
21 Apr. 2021
Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Like many of Anderson’s protagonists, Gustave is a reprobate of the first order, romancing old ladies for their fortunes and such.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Batiste is not a reprobate minstrel like late-night regular Lil Nas X; yet the weakness of both is held in equivalent esteem by the cultural mainstream.
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Armond White,
National Review,
6 Apr. 2022
That’s when Regina’s sardonic sister (Wanda Skyes, the show’s co-creator) steps in and lets him and his reprobate pals have it.
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Jeanne Jakle,
San Antonio Express-News,
21 Apr. 2021
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But Jaron had a new acquaintance—Nortal, an old reprobate who ran the town dump.
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Annie Proulx,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Like many of Anderson’s protagonists, Gustave is a reprobate of the first order, romancing old ladies for their fortunes and such.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
12 June 2025
Verb
Gasoline is dirty, smelly, toxic, and environmentally reprobate.
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Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
11 Apr. 2026
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Johnson County He was arrested last August on charges of abuse of office and corrupt influence.
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The kidnappings have been linked to run-ins with drug cartels and corrupt government officials, while there have also been cases involving young women who worked at the country’s many factories.
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The immigrant-threat frame offers a quicker villain and a simpler solution to persistent social problems such as violent crime.
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The new production will follow Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo from their comic book origins to becoming global pop culture icons, battling familiar villains along the way.
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Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez rejected those motions.
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Goldman has drawn criticism for refusing to reject support from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group.
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While prosecution witnesses have refused to delineate between the Lachman and Palisades blazes, Haney has repeatedly described them as two distinct incidents that ignited days apart.
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After a May debate, Smullen refused to shake his opponent's hand.
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Other Ukrainian officials denounced Poland’s move.
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Crowds have gathered around it in protest and in praise to denounce American wars, and hear great voices sing and speak.
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Even when degraded, enzymes have stable backbones that might be capable of catalyzing reactions, said Sudha Rajamani, an astrobiologist at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune who wasn’t involved in the study.
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According to the company, QTT enables highly secure and resilient position, navigation, and timing (PNT) services, helping maintain accurate timing and synchronization even when traditional GPS and radio-frequency signals are unavailable, degraded, or intentionally jammed.
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Shinnecock was still a brute of a test, but the red numbers on the white scoreboard were an unfamiliar site for this course.
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
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Beijing broadly denies providing weapons to countries in conflict.
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Achraf Hakimi, Morocco’s superstar captain, was denied by Gunn after receiving a similar entry pass from Diaz, then zipped a shot from outside the box straight at the Scotland keeper.
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“Reprobate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reprobate. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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