| 单词 | reprobate |
| 释义 | reprobate (once / 1865 pages) 1nadjv 2v There's no way around it, a reprobate is a bad egg. The black sheep of the family, missing a moral compass — a reprobate's been called everything from a deviant to an evildoer to a scoundrel. Selfish, depraved, disreputable, a reprobate is not known for his inner goodness. In fact, reprobates were once considered "rejected by God," the meaning of the noun in the 1500s. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, a reprobate was a popular literary character, sometimes amusing, as noted in Henry James' Daisy Miller, "What a clever little reprobate she was, and how smartly she played an injured innocence!" WORD FAMILYreprobate: reprobated, reprobates, reprobating, reprobation+/reprobation: reprobations USAGE EXAMPLESHis surname did not derive from the Russian word for reprobate. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) You couldn’t find a more comprehensive group of Republican has-beens and reprobates if you turned over every rock on a Superfund site. Salon(Nov 14, 2016) All citizens including reprobates are encouraged to vote. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) 1 1n a person without moral scruples Syn|Hypo|Hyper miscreant degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior black sheep, scapegracea reckless and unprincipled reprobate wretchperforms some wicked deed fetishistone who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) masochistsomeone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment nympho, nymphomaniaca woman with abnormal sexual desires child molester, paederast, pederasta man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner paedophile, pedophilean adult who is sexually attracted to children sadistsomeone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others sadomasochistsomeone who enjoys both sadism and masochism lech, lecher, letch, satyrman with strong sexual desires offender, wrongdoer a person who transgresses moral or civil law 2adj deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat Syn depraved, perverse, perverted corrupt lacking in integrity 3v express strong disapproval of These ideas were reprobated Syn|Hyper condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate denounce speak out against 4v abandon to eternal damnation 2God reprobated the unrepenting sinner Hyper condemn, doom, sentence pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law v reject (documents) as invalid Ant|Hyper approbate accept (documents) as valid reject refuse to accept or acknowledge |
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