A person without moral scruples.

synoniem: miscreant.

Roget 949: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer etc. 913; sinner; the wicked etc. 945; bad example.    villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash^†, caitiff^†; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger^†, monster; devil etc. (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell^†.    bad woman, jade, Jezebel.    scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag.    rou_e [Fr.], rake; Sadist; skeesicks [Slang], skeezix [U.S.]; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee [Fr.], vaurien^†, mauvais sujet [Fr.], loose fish, sad dog; rounder [Slang]; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal etc. 818.    rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother [Coll.], ruffian, bully, meanie [Joc.]; Jonathan Wild; hangman.    incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.].    thief etc. 792; murderer, terrorist etc. 361.    [person who violates the criminal law] culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp [Coll.]; disorderly person, misdemeanant [Law]; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon, (convicted criminal); criminal; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.    blackguard, polisson^†, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion^†; cullion^†, mean wretch, varlet, kern^†, ame-de-boue [Fr.], drole^†; cur, dog, hound^†, whelp^†, mongrel^†; lown^†, loon, runnion^†, outcast, vagabond; rogue etc. (knave) 941; ronian^†; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo^†.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: onverlaat

Reject (documents) as invalid.

Abandon to eternal damnation.

Express strong disapproval of:
— These ideas were reprobated.

synoniemen: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate.

Roget 932: disapprove; dislike etc. 867; lament etc. 839; object to, take exception to; be scandalized at, think ill of; view with disfavor, view with dark eyes, view with jaundiced eyes; nil admirari [Lat.], disvalue^†; improbate^†.    frown upon, look grave; bend the brows, knit the brows; shake the head at, shrug the shoulders; turn up the nose etc. (contempt) 930; look askance, look black upon; look with an evil eye; make a wry face, make a wry mouth at; set one's face against.    dispraise, discommend^†, disparage; deprecate, speak ill of, not speak well of; condemn etc. (find guilty) 971.    blame; lay blame upon, cast blame upon; censure, fronder [Fr.], reproach, pass censure on, reprobate, impugn.    remonstrate, expostulate, recriminate.    reprehend, chide, admonish; berate, betongue^†; bring to account, call to account, call over the coals, rake over the coals, call to order; take to task, reprove, lecture, bring to book; read a lesson, read a lecture to; rebuke, correct.    reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete [Fr.], overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.    accuse etc. 938; impeach, denounce; hold up to reprobation, hold up to execration; expose, brand, gibbet, stigmatize; show up, pull up, take up; cry 'shame' upon;" be outspoken; raise a hue and cry against.    execrate etc. 908; exprobate^†, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile^†, revile; vilify, vilipend^†; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw^†; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.    exclaim against, protest against, inveigh against, declaim against, cry out against, raise one's voice against.    decry; cry down, run down, frown down; clamor, hiss, hoot, mob, ostracize, blacklist; draw up a round robin, sign a round robin.    animadvert upon, reflect upon; glance at; cast reflection, cast reproach, cast a slur upon; insinuate, damn with faint praise; hint a fault and hesitate dislike;" not to be able to say much for.    scoff at, point at; twit, taunt etc. (disrespect) 929; sneer at etc. (despise) 230; satirize, lampoon; defame etc. (detract) 934; depreciate, find fault with, criticize, cut up; pull to pieces, pick to pieces; take exception; cavil; peck at, nibble at, carp at; be censorious etc. adj.; pick holes, pick a hole, pick a hole in one's coat; make a fuss about.    take down, take down a peg, set down; snub, snap one up, give a rap on the knuckles; throw a stone at, throw a stone in one's garden; have a fling, have a snap at; have words with, pluck a crow with; give one a wipe, give one a lick with the rough side of the give one a lick with the rough side of the tongue.    incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears.    take blame, stand corrected; have to answer for.    ... meer laten zien

Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good:
— The reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat.

synoniemen: depraved, perverse, perverted.

Roget 945: vicious; sinful; sinning etc. v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous^†, undutiful.    unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.], indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless^†; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.    base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous^†, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.    Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike^†, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.    miscreated^†, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.    evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent etc. 907; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.    incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible etc. (guilty) 947.    unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible^†.    weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 988: impious; irreligious etc. 989; desecrating etc. v.; profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.    un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate; hardened, perverted, reprobate.    hypocritical etc. (false) 544; canting, pietistical^†, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous^†, righteous over much.    bigoted, fanatical; priest-ridden.    ... meer laten zien

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