Reprobate

a.	1.
	1.	Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. - Jer. vi. 30.
	2.	Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved. And strength, and art, are easily outdone By spirits reprobate. - Milton.
	3.	Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.
n.	1.	One morally abandoned and lost. I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king. - Sir W. Raleigh.
v. t.	1.	To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. [imp. & p. p. Reprobated (-b?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reprobating.] Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. - Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. - Macaulay.
	2.	To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Noun	1.	reprobate - a person without moral scruples Synonyms: miscreant
Verb	1.	reprobate - reject (documents) as invalid Antonyms: approbate - accept (documents) as valid
	2.	reprobate - abandon to eternal damnation; "God reprobated the unrepenting sinner"
	3.	reprobate - express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate
Adj.	1.	reprobate - marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat" Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted, immoral

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