REPROBATE in a Sentence

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For REPROBATE, below is one of 9 sentences:
It wasn't fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have so little.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPROBATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
reprobate
 n.  person hardened in sin; person without moral scruples
Classic Sentence:
1  It shocked her to realize that anyone as absolutely perfect as Ashley could have any thought in common with such a reprobate as Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  It wasn't fair that a reprobate like Rhett Butler should have so much and she, who carried so heavy a load, should have so little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  The old reprobate with the surplice burst into a volley of bad language.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
4  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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  The multitude, who had raised a clamorous shout of reprobation, paused and gazed in silence on the formidable and experienced body to which they had unwarily bade defiance, and shrunk back from their front.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  But I am not worth receiving further proof even of Heaven's reprobation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
7  Here was again a something of the same Mr. Crawford whom she had so reprobated before.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence:
1  I cannot understand why he has so many admirers if he is the reprobate you say he is.
2  Such cramming method of teaching is now severely reprobated.