Posted on 03/31/2010 6:55:01 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
reprobate • \REP-ruh-bayt\ • noun 
1. a person foreordained to damnation
2. a depraved person : scoundrel *
* Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
Example sentence:
"He was just an old reprobate who lived poor and died broke...." (Richard Peck, A Long Way from Chicago)
Did you know?
These days, calling someone a "reprobate" is hardly a condemnation to hellfire and brimstone, but the original reprobates of the 16th century were hardened sinners who had fallen from God's grace. By the 19th century, "reprobate" had acquired the milder, but still utterly condemnatory, sense of "a depraved person." Gradually, though, the criticism implied by "reprobate" became touched with tolerance and even a bit of humor. It is now most likely to be used as it was in this August 1995 New Yorker magazine article about the death of musician Jerry Garcia: "It was suddenly obvious that Garcia had become, against all odds, an American icon: by Thursday morning, the avuncular old reprobate had smuggled his way onto the front pages of newspapers around the world."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
dear, God. I get up and turn on the TV and that reprobate is running his mouth on FOX again. did they sign a contract or something with the OTP? he never shuts up and they are running all his speeches live. enough already. UNCLE, UNCLE...!
the granny nanny sexy? LMAO!
After selling my congressman some night crawlers on credit I found that I was going to have to reprobate
You’ve always had a problem going left.
Try three rights ; )
Sunny and warm today-
Since Obama tells such lies
And since he is a thief
Should we not be calling him
The reprobate in chief?
First he says no drilling
Then he hedges-maybe so
But before a rig goes up
He’ll again be saying “no”
His precious little “studies”
Will no doubt do no more
Than prove we’ll kill the climate
By drilling oil offshore
He’s acting like he has a shred of intelligence, but he’s just playing CYA for the envirowackos with studies-their “findings” will only prove out their agenda.
she looks like the Joker.
what a jacka$$, sorry General jacka$$
Nasty Pelosi always reminds me of someone who is schizophrenic and off their medication-something about that extreme smile and those glittering eyes...
Finally, spring is back. We had sleet and snow this week, now I am out and about without a jacket and the sun is back. This spring weather is crazy.
Now I am off to bake snickerdoodles for my homies at the station.
i don’t WANT to go left! ever! if i take 3 rights i want to end up on the RIGHT!
The Puppet prez is a sitting duck and he is making himself so. I do believe that the man, at the instigation of his wife, is setting himself up for assassination. To much is mimicking the Kennedy years and it seems to be done with deliberation, as if it were stage managed.
He deliberately puts himself and his family in situations where they can come to harm. Why would someone do something like this? Is he planning on tearing the country apart with this plan?
My female intuition says that one of the Black Caucus is planning with the Prez for him to become another Kennedy/King icon. What better way to bring this country down than that by starting a civil war?
The man’s doomsaying hasn’t worked so another way will be found.
And however aptly the word reprobate may apply to me, I still prefer the term salacious instead. It's pretty much the same degree of rapskallion-ness, but it has a more charming appeal.
That’s how the roads work back home, ya know.
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