Sample Sentences for
reprobate
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    The town viewed her as a reprobate, always involved in dubious activities and scandals.
    reprobate = an unprincipled or immoral person
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    The company is considered a model company in a reprobate industry.
    reprobate = unprincipled or immoral
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    The novel's protagonist struggled with her reprobate tendencies, constantly battling his inner demons.
    reprobate = immoral
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    You would think that the old reprobate had tortured her, stolen her patrimony, flung her out of doors, roasted, stuffed, and eaten his children, and gone frolicking about wreathed in all the flowers of Sodom and Gomorrah; instead of what?  (source)
    reprobate = immoral person
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    I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.  (source)
    reprobated = criticized or condemned
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    Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection, and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: " There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels."†  (source)
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    It was not in compliment to Jane Fairfax however that he was so indifferent, or so indignant; he was not guided by her feelings in reprobating the ball, for she enjoyed the thought of it to an extraordinary degree.  (source)
    reprobating = criticizing or condemning
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    In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself—that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way—he got up and lit the lamp—re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    It wasn't fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have so little.  (source)
    reprobate = unprincipled person
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    The majority then reprobated the line of policy which he adopted, and which has since been unanimously approved by the nation.†  (source)
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    From his remarks his parents now gathered the real reason of the separation; and their Christianity was such that, reprobates being their especial care, the tenderness towards Tess which her blood, her simplicity, even her poverty, had not engendered, was instantly excited by her sin.†  (source)
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    She had led her friend astray, and it would be a reproach to her for ever; but her judgment was as strong as her feelings, and as strong as it had ever been before, in reprobating any such alliance for him, as most unequal and degrading.†  (source)
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    ... but I have a score to settle with that young reprobate!  (source)
    reprobate = unprincipled person (used affectionately)
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