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 “big swollen gambler,” as Carlyle calls him in one of the Latter-Day Pamphlets, was savagely and excessively reprobated by the world which had blindly believed in his golden prophecies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
I am entirely of opinion that such a law is highly to be reprobated in a civil point of view; but in what concerns religion, let each man's conscience take care of itself.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
This financial union of the States was reprobated not only on the floor of Congress, but in different parts of the Union, as fraught with political evil.
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
Some reprobated the sight of the priestly character, or the “fols clers,” “mad clerks,” in their grotesque disguisings; if they were sanctioned by one pope, they were condemned by another.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
