reprobate
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- n a person without moral scruples
- v reject (documents) as invalid
- v abandon to eternal damnation
God reprobated the unrepenting sinner - v express strong disapproval of
These ideas were reprobated - s deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat
- The Watergate ordeal cast up a score of minor and major villains, from third- rate burglars to reprobate White House movers and shakers.
- The man who had once been Prince Hal, the reluctant heir to the throne, was in danger of turning into Falstaff, the aging reprobate.
- A thoroughgoing reprobate, he became Dictator of Venezuela 27 years ago when Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler had scarcely a political thought in their heads.