reprobate
noun
a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person.
reprobated
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past participleof reprobate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reprobate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reprobatenouna depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person.
Example Sentences
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The four following essays were published eighteen months ago in the Cornhill Magazine, and were reprobated in a violent manner, as far as I could hear, by most of the readers they met with.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin
I am capable of everything to the end of preventing an act reprobated by the General of my Order.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
The British commander reprobated the death of Captain Huddy, and broke up the board.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
The exuberant later style that resulted from a too ardent application of the principles of Michelangelo and is known as Baroque, though generally reprobated at present, must not be too sweepingly condemned.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
Any breach of the sanctities of family life is invariably reprobated.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
