Thursday, September 25, 2008

REPROBATE

person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency

a person without moral scruples
SYN - miscreant

reject (documents) as invalid

abandon to eternal damnation
"God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"

express strong disapproval of
SYN - condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate
ANT - approbate
"These ideas were reprobated"

deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
SYN - depraved, perverse
"The reprobate conduct of a gambler"

"Her christian upbringing and morals had not allowed her to see this valuable gem of a person as anything but a reprobate."

"He had become a reprobate and his only chance of salvation was the love of a women like this."

"She knew that in order to not succumb to the lure of such a reprobate creature she must remind herself of god's salvation."

"The actions were reprobate to her morality and so she left him immediately."

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