If I thought he was a reprobate, I wouldn't help him. From LearnThat.org.
Noun : a drunken reprobate. From Dictionary.com.
It is an absurd assertion, that "the demerits of the reprobate are the subordinate means of bringing them onward to destined destruction.". From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
Compare the equivalent term, "reprobate," Jer 6: 30; 2Co 13: 6. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Just what kind of reprobate children are these, we begin to wonder?. From Wordnik.com. [PegasusNews.com stories] Reference
If you coulda squeezed 'reprobate' and 'slimy' into that sentence it woulda been a 'lil more accurate. From Wordnik.com. [SportsFilter] Reference
Gradually, though, the criticism implied by "reprobate" became touched with tolerance and even a bit of humor. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
In fact, I can't think of a time when I've heard the term "reprobate" when it wasn't being used as a perjorative. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
By the 19th century, "reprobate" had acquired the milder, but still utterly condemnatory, sense of "a depraved person.". From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
You have thus made up the company of the reprobate. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"Why, that was very hard -- a great reprobate, I fear.". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
"Ah, you old reprobate, you had better not let your wife hear you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tory Maid] Reference
One night this reprobate and stubborn character did not return home. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
You'll be a regular gallows young reprobate afore you're much older. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"He died," she said at last, "in New York, a reprobate, as he lived.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
We will not attempt to describe a conscious reprobate, "passed by" and. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
That old reprobate of the bank there is expiating and suffering, that old. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"This young reprobate would frighten anybody!" cried Mr. Downes, blusteringly. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Paul had been taken up to the third heaven, yet trembled lest he should become a reprobate. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
'It's all very well for you, you glass-eyed old reprobate,' said Pauer, speaking in English. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
All are in that "way," we may be sure, even those whom we foolishly deem hopelessly reprobate. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
This was the most excitement he'd experienced since his reprobate son was arrested last year. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Townsend Wakes Up] Reference
"I pointed out to Miss Marlowe the good influence living with me would have on a reprobate like you.". From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
Old Reb Kohn, after endeavoring in vain to bring the reprobate to his senses, finally forbade him the house. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
But I am afraid Prince Edward was a sad reprobate in those days -- at least, such is the record of tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
If he did not reprobate and denounce the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, that was rather of the age than of Bourdaloue. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Hubert Oliphant had discovered, with dismay, that Frank's new servant was none other than the reprobate groom of Greymoor Park. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
"And, my good sir," rejoined the Chevalier, who was resolved to improve so good an opportunity to wound the old reprobate to the quick. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference
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