reprobate
noun
a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person.
had reprobated
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past perfectof reprobate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They have eulogised men and events which they had reprobated, and reprobated what they had eulogised.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
He had reprobated party, and he found in a party—narrower in practice even than that which he had displaced—the only possible foundation for his authority.
From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison
