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Example sentences for "reprobate"

Lexicographically close words:
reproacheth; reproachful; reproachfully; reproaching; reproachless; reprobated; reprobates; reprobating; reprobation; reproch
  1. The reprobate made no answer to this; but he turned his face away and sighed.

  2. The girl's chief sorrow was, that her father, who to her mind was calculated to shine in the highest station the world could give, should be a reprobate and a pauper.

  3. I knew the strength of my noble girl's love for her reprobate father.

  4. She pitied him, and she tried to make excuses for him in her own mind: and with every thought of the penniless reprobate there was intermingled the memory of the wrong that had been done him by Henry Dunbar.

  5. It was grotesque but supremely awful to listen to the grey-haired reprobate shrieking and blaspheming and the parrot mocking him.

  6. For a weak woman like herself to attempt the regeneration of this burly reprobate she felt would be foolish, and could lead to no good result.

  7. If my lady once was to get power over him again, I might go whistle--so (with another reprobate oath) my lord and my lady shall never come together again whilst I live.

  8. And where both these rods are made of no use or effect by the obstinacy of sinners, the rods are broken, and such sinners are given up to a reprobate sense, as the Jews were.

  9. Call them reprobate silver, for the Lord hath rejected them.

  10. But the reader will not be surprised that the Moors make bad slave-masters, when they have such an early training as this little reprobate boy, the nephew of Haj Essnousee.

  11. And the seven nations of Canaan, were they not swept off as utterly reprobate from the face of the earth?

  12. The old reprobate knew how to manage a woman still.

  13. I do not reprobate the idea of this relique of ancient dignity, as these Heraldic Monuments were doubtless intended to operate as public evidences of the passage of each Lord-Deputy to his delegated Government.

  14. Seth Ellis, a man of a reprobate character, and a disgrace to his profession, who wanted the living, and was patronised by the Parish.

  15. He answered that he was from Picardy, that the children were his, and that he had been fain to leave Picardy by reason of the misconduct of their reprobate elder brother.

  16. I know Professor Stuart, in his late exposition of the Romans, seems to reprobate these comparisons; and while he contends, as I should think, as strenuously as Dr.

  17. He took Sam Tubbs to task when he met that old reprobate staggering home from the saloons and gave him a tongue-lashing that Sam admitted afterward made his wife's nagging seem like a cradle lullaby.

  18. Nor was that sigh wholly because of the reprobate Joe.

  19. They undoubtedly reprobate what is called mixed education, or the system which endeavours to separate education from religion, as the Queen's Colleges profess to do.

  20. LEE considered the motion would have the complete effect any gentleman could wish whose desire it was to reprobate the conduct of the Administration of our Government.

  21. It is, in substance, complimenting him as a private man, while the very words reprobate him in his public station.

  22. Fuddlestone, old friends of the house, wouldn't sit on the bench with Sir Pitt at Quarter Sessions, and cut him dead in the High Street of Southampton, where the reprobate stood offering his dirty old hands to them.

  23. She had never mingled in the society of women: her father, reprobate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversation was a thousand times more agreeable to her than the talk of such of her own sex as she now encountered.

  24. Thus we frequently respect or reprobate a book without a perusal, merely on account of the Author's name.

  25. With all his affectation of hard words, the Doctor becomes at once intelligible when he wishes to reprobate a rival genius, or insult the ashes of a benefactor.

  26. The ungodly and reprobate young man fell covered with wounds, and with curses and blasphemy in his mouth, while I escaped uninjured.

  27. Has not the Laird of Dalcastle and his reprobate heir the same?

  28. I have traced the reprobate to his sanctuary in the cloud, and lo he is perched on the pinnacle of a precipice an hundred fathoms high.

  29. I hope your Lordships will not think that such monstrous doctrine should be passed over, without all possible pains being taken to demonstrate its falsehood and to reprobate its tendency.

  30. Before I quit this subject, your Lordships will again permit me to reprobate the malicious insinuations by which Mr. Hastings has thought proper to slander the virtuous persons who are the authors of that system which he complains of.

  31. And even this attenuated scandal would have faded away long ago if some people had not kept it alive by a story which owes its point to the use made of the shady parson's name by an old reprobate who desired to score off a worthy clergyman.

  32. O worthy trade for our pontiffs to ply, instead of the ministry of the Gospel, which in their greed and pride they despise, being delivered up to a reprobate sense with utter shame and infamy.


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    Other words:
    abandoned; abominable; accuse; arraign; arrant; atrocious; bad; base; bastard; black; blame; blameworthy; censure; condemn; contaminated; corrupt; criminal; criticize; damn; damnable; damned; dark; debased; debauched; decadent; decline; decry; degenerate; denounce; depraved; disapprove; disgraceful; dismiss; dissolute; elect; evil; execrable; execrate; flagrant; fleshly; foul; godless; graceless; heinous; immoral; impeach; improper; impugn; indict; infamous; iniquitous; knavish; knock; lecher; libertine; licentious; lost; low; miscreant; monstrous; mundane; naughty; nefarious; notorious; peccant; pervert; perverted; pimp; polluted; profane; profligate; rank; rap; recreant; refuse; reject; reprehend; reprehensible; reproach; reprobate; repudiate; roguish; rotten; scandalous; scapegrace; scold; secular; shameful; sinful; sinner; skin; spurn; tainted; temporal; trollop; unblessed; unforgivable; unhallowed; unholy; unpardonable; unprincipled; unregenerate; unspeakable; unworthy; vicious; vile; villainous; warped; whore; wicked; worldly; wrong