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The original reprobates were hardened sinners who had fallen from God's grace. In time, their name was used outside of religious contexts for any person who behaves in a morally wrong way. In Late Latin, reprobare means "to disapprove" or "to condemn."
Synonyms
Noun
- baddie
- baddy
- beast
- brute
- caitiff
- devil
- evildoer
- fiend
- heavy
- hound
- knave
- meanie
- meany
- miscreant
- monster
- nazi
- no-good
- rapscallion
- rascal
- rogue
- savage
- scalawag
- scallywag
- scamp
- scapegrace
- scoundrel
- varlet
- villain
- wretch
Adjective
- corrupt
- debased
- debauched
- decadent
- degenerate
- degraded
- demoralized
- depraved
- dissipated
- dissolute
- jackleg
- libertine
- loose
- perverse
- perverted
- rakehell
- rakehelly
- rakish
- sick
- unclean
- unwholesome
- warped
Verb
Examples of reprobate in a Sentence
Armond White, National Review, 19 June 2024
All these years later, all of us remain just as torn about these enormously charismatic reprobates.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
To many of them, killing someone with such a reprobate mind was justifiable by God’s laws.
—Time, 7 Nov. 2022
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“Reprobate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reprobate. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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