The phrase "a reprobate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is morally unprincipled or rejected by society.
Example: "Despite his charm, many considered him a reprobate due to his unethical behavior."
Alternatives: "a scoundrel" or "a rogue".
This doesn't make Mr. Obama a reprobate.
He was also a rogue and a reprobate, pursued by the press.
Rather a reprobate than a Republican, voters in his district reckon.In this section Who will tame the taxman?
He seemed like a monster, a crazed eccentric, even a reprobate to his respectable and repressed juniors.
I can only surmise that Lindz had decided that Canyons is part of a reprobate past she must put behind her in order to move forward".
He became a radio-talk-show host, which gave him a coveted forum and allowed him to charm the edges off his image as a reprobate.
He is a sickly reprobate, a junior drunkard and avid reader of despotic history, so jaded with school and life that he practices villainy for "amusement" — the reason he gives for pushing Seymour down the stairs.
The film was panned in America; Chaplin was denounced as a moral reprobate and a political radical and finally driven out of the country he had so royally entertained for 40 years.
The earlier play presented a tour of a Lancashire neighbourhood with a local reprobate named Scullery as the guide.
After all, if Israel is labelled the worst nation on earth, then anyone regarded as a "supporter" is surely a moral reprobate who ought to be shunned and shamed.
In 2013, he played the lead in British indie film Starred Up, in which he played a violent reprobate prematurely transferred to an adult prison.
