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reprobate

/rep-ruh-beyt/US // ˈrɛp rəˌbeɪt //UK // (ˈrɛprəʊˌbeɪt) //

恶人,恶棍,恶习不改,恶人先告状

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
    • : a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : morally depraved; unprincipled; bad.
    • : rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rep·ro·bat·ed, rep·ro·bat·ing.

    • : to disapprove, condemn, or censure.
    • : to reject, as for sin; exclude from the number of the elect or from salvation.

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Examples

  • I remember calling him an old reprobate and he said 'not so much of the old'.

  • Afterward, there is rarely satisfaction, just final proof that Johnny Flameout is a reprobate.

  • The people who were predestined to be lost they described as reprobate, and this word we still use, but with a different meaning.

  • A reprobate nowadays is a person who is looked upon as hopelessly bad, and the word is also sometimes used jokingly.

  • I know he is a hot-blooded old reprobate—that father of yours.

  • What's me or that drunken old reprobate out there to the likes of you?

  • That a base reprobate should become a Marquis and a peer of Parliament was in accordance with the constitution of the country.