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reprobate
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{n}
synonyms: ~rake ???
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Definition:an unprincipled person; a sinner
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In short [...] Pax Britannica descended on the islands. That this occurred I think is less a tribute to the peripatetic colonial officers, who were ordered to administer both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands without the Colonial Office actually providing them with a boat, but more to the desire of the I-Kiribati* to reclaim their world from the rancorous influence of the I-Matang** reprobates who had settled on the islands.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.124 (2004)
*what the Kiribati people call themselves
** what the Kiribati call honkies (firangi)
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"Nay, but this IS England, you abandoned young reprobate," interposed Lord Antony with a laugh, "and do not, I pray, bring your loose foreign ways into this most moral country."
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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It was an impossible answer. This was not the answer of a reprobate child who'd just gotten your daughter tattooed.
Drew Perry. Kids These Days, p.144 (2014)
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They say the alligator, the rhinoceros, though enclosed in bullet-proof mail, have each a spot where they are vulnerable; and fierce, reckless, unbelieving reprobates, have commonly this point in superstitious dread.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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