reprobating

verb

present participle of reprobate
1
as in denying
to be unwilling to grant the board will most likely reprobate the request for parole

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2
as in refusing
to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to without hesitation she reprobated such an indecent idea

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3
as in denouncing
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 Synonyms for reprobating
  1. denying
  2. refusing
  3. denouncing
  4. rejecting
  5. declining
  6. condemning
  7. ignoring
  8. criticizing
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  • This has been compounded by massive cuts in international aid and a Taliban government that has sidelined half of Afghanistan’s population, denying women and girls education beyond primary school and banning them from the vast majority of jobs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Similar restrictions have been challenged elsewhere, including in Georgia, where a federal judge ruled that denying hormone therapy to incarcerated people violated the Eighth Amendment.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Definition of denying
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  • The discipline is refusing to play the obvious one, which is accepting the first answer.
    — Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • This season,, Sanders is and refusing to look ahead when asked about the team’s first two Big 12 games against Baylor and the league’s defending champions, Texas Tech.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
Definition of refusing
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  • During Democratic presidencies, which the DSA mostly spends denouncing the occupant of the Oval Office as a sellout, Democratic loyalists have less patience for factional complaints.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • The crisis that healthcare professionals on and off the island have been denouncing for years has mobilized nonprofit health organizations in Miami, which are preparing to act immediately in the event sociopolitical change comes to the island.
    — Sarah Moreno July 1, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
Definition of denouncing
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  • El-Sayed has built his campaign around bold policy proposals, rejecting corporate PAC money and casting himself as an alternative to the status quo of the Democratic Party.
    — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Kalshi lost an attempt to override New York’s state gambling laws yesterday, with a federal judge rejecting the prediction market operator’s request to prevent enforcement of the rules.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
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  • There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the declining population of Los Angeles County, which lost 54,000 people from July 2024 to July 2025, the biggest numeric population drop in the nation during that period, by far.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • For years now, Olathe Schools has talked about its problem of declining enrollment.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
Definition of declining
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  • Lot is often described in the Qurʾān, and in subsequent interpretive traditions, in the role of condemning the men of Sodom for lusting after men rather than women.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Officials in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) also came out with statements on Saturday condemning Iran.
    — James Cirrone, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
Definition of condemning
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  • Goldberg said lawmakers should have stood up for students instead of ignoring the constitutional requirement.
    — Charlie Borla, Oc Register, 9 July 2026
  • Iranian state television said the tanker came under attack after ignoring warnings but did not directly claim the assault.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of ignoring
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  • Acknowledging and even criticizing our mistakes of the past doesn’t cheapen one’s love for the United States.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The movie continues its tradition of addressing social issues, this time focusing on human equality and colonial looting, with pointed dialogue criticizing the British Empire.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of criticizing
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