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  • 91prove — [12] The ultimate source of prove was Latin probus ‘good’. This went back (like the related Sanskrit prabhu ‘eminent, mighty’) to a prehistoric Indo European compound *probhwo ‘being in front’, hence ‘excelling’ (*promeant ‘in front’, and *bhwo… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 92reproach — {{11}}reproach (n.) mid 14c., a rebuke, a reproach; also object of scorn or contempt; c.1400, as disgrace, state of disgrace, from O.Fr. reproche (12c.), from reprocher to blame, bring up against, said by some Fr. etymologists to be from V.L.… …

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  • 93reprobation — mid 15c., from L.L. reprobationem, noun of action from reprobare (see REPROBATE (Cf. reprobate)) …

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  • 94reprove — c.1300, from O.Fr. reprover, from L.L. reprobare disapprove, reject, condemn (see REPROBATE (Cf. reprobate)) …

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  • 95degenerate — 1. adjective 1) a degenerate form of classicism Syn: debased, degraded, corrupt, impure; formal vitiated Ant: pure 2) her degenerate brother Syn: corrupt, decadent, dissolute …

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  • 96criticize — criticize, reprehend, blame, censure, reprobate, condemn, denounce are comparable when they mean to find fault with someone or something openly, often publicly, and with varying degrees of severity. Criticize in its basic sense does not carry… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 97miscreant — adj 1. depraved, debased, corrupt, degenerate; villainous, criminal, unprincipled, unscrupulous, scoundrelly, knavish, roguish, rascally; base, evil, wicked, nefarious, iniquitous; vile, foul, reprehensible. 2. misbelieving, idolatrous, pagan,… …

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  • 98profligate — adj 1. dissolute, libertine, rakish, rakehell; disssipated, lascivious, debauched; lecherous, lubricous, Sl. horny, satyric, satyrical, satyrlike, goatish, Archaic. lickerish; carnal, erotic, voluptuous, sensual, sybaritic; licentious, abandoned …

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  • 99scoundrel — n 1. villain, miscreant, reprobate, incorrigible; rogue, knave, scapegrace, wastrel, Archaic. coistrel, ne er do well, good for nothing, good for naught; wretch, churl, cur, cad, dog, dastard, blackguard, Archaic. bezonian; All Inf. rat, creep,… …

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  • 100ungodly — adj 1. irreligious, unreligious, nonreli gious, atheistic, disbelieving, unbelieving, nonbeliev ing, godless, nonspiritual; infidel, infidelic, heathenish, heathen, pagan, paganistic, unenlightened; agnostic, skeptical, doubting, questioning, Pyr …

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