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)
Here is my example with today's WFTD.
When Republican politicians or party leaders are exposed as reprobates they tend to lose their jobs; democrats, exposed as reprobates, are usually promoted.
GOP fires Allison Meyers as strip-club scandal taints party
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
Only 
days left until BO's replacement is sworn in.
Get to class you slackers!
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Go Me!
Isn’t Obama’s entire career a retrobate-and-switch with the media’s support?
at least you are self aware ; )
This is too easy:
The current occupent of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave is proving himself to be a reprobate with each passing day.
Tiger Woods, the world famous reprobate
The number grows larger, in re fornicate
Each liaison cost him millions
Were he Wilt, he’d be out billions
Cheaper, by far, just to masturbate
reprobate?!?!?!?
I resemble that!:-)
i had an email exchange this AM with a friend who told me that i should think about getting “other” perspectives from other channels other than Fox. Needless to say i made short shrift of her and said, there’s a reason fox viewership is growing by leaps and bounds while people continue to turn off the mainstream media. People need to know i am operating on an extremely short fuse these days before they try to engage me on this crap. I have ZERO TOLERANCE for leftism in any form, no matter how diluted.
LMAO!
I just noticed the author. When they’ve lost Hugh Hewitt, they’ve lost.
I can’t honestly call 0bama a reprobate now. It’s too kind. He’s a retrograde bucket of feculent swine offal, unpleasant in hue and unfit for breeding vibrio cholorae.
He eats one meal and day and only gets 4 hours of sleep? Some might say he’s not able to function normally -
I’m still waiting for my rebate check and my neighbor just told me he is on probation.
Did I flunk?
LOL
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