How to Use reprobate in a Sentence

reprobate

noun
  • The key to this gaslighting reprobate is that the group has become distracted.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • His surname did not derive from the Russian word for reprobate.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Buster was a notorious reprobate who was linked to an illicit liquor ring.
    — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Royalty and rock stars mingled with writers, rogues, and reprobates.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2025
  • But Jaron had a new acquaintance—Nortal, an old reprobate who ran the town dump.
    — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Jack is variously described and self-described as a ne’er-do-well, a reprobate, a black sheep and a scoundrel.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Unlike Vegas with its cast of reprobates and wackos, this joint is classy and clean and just a wee bit indulgent.
    — David Weiss, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Joann Jimenez described reprobates as people who have been rejected by God.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Today’s Rand movement is full of transgressors and reprobates.
    — Alexander Sammon, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Whether this is also the outcome for Hozier’s simpering reprobate is up for the listener to decide.
    — Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
  • Instead, Killers of the Flower Moon pits white reprobates against indigenous innocents.
    — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Charlie Price, a resolute drunken reprobate, has resolved to marry a woman with the aim of paying off his debts and staying in his family's good graces.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The mainstream media denounced such behavior, but that only emboldened some, cementing their image as reprobates.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • Mitchell also well handles the role of the Proustian character, the Baron de Charlus, a charming reprobate who comes to rue favoring rough trade.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 31 July 2017
  • They’re typically retired, sitting on pensions and 401(k)s, and may be naive to the techniques favored by con artists and reprobates who run riot on the internet.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This era of the Rolling Stones is the look every band strived for less than a decade later, when every unwashed reprobate on the Sunset Strip embraced the unkempt hair look that turned into glam rock.
    — Tim Moffatt, EW.com, 10 June 2022
  • Boyer and Mauzey have dug deeper into their problem-parent roles to find the humanity in their screwups and shortcomings, and the empathy in their fragile hopes, while Milligan is an irresistible reprobate with killer comic timing.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Get our daily newsletter The scandal over Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women, and over the other reprobates exposed in his wake, is changing Hollywood irrevocably.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018

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