What's the difference between accuse and reprobate?

Accuse


Definition:

  • (n.) Accusation.
  • (v. t.) To charge with, or declare to have committed, a crime or offense
  • (v. t.) to charge with an offense, judicially or by a public process; -- with of; as, to accuse one of a high crime or misdemeanor.
  • (v. t.) To charge with a fault; to blame; to censure.
  • (v. t.) To betray; to show. [L.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (3) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (4) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (5) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (6) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
  • (7) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
  • (8) She has been accused of being responsible for rape, sexual slavery, and prostitution itself.
  • (9) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (10) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (11) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (12) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
  • (13) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (15) He said he was appalled by the player's accusations and plans to meet with Martin on Wednesday at an undisclosed location.
  • (16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (17) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
  • (18) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
  • (19) The Iranians have accused the Israelis and the US of designing and deploying Stuxnet, which set some of their centrifuges spinning out of control.
  • (20) Does parliamentary privilege really mean that the four accused should not face trial?

Reprobate


Definition:

  • (a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
  • (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to vice; depraved.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one who is given up to wickedness; as, reprobate conduct.
  • (n.) One morally abandoned and lost.
  • (v. t.) To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject.
  • (v. t.) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The biotin and its attached streptavidin and radiolabel can be removed under mild conditions and the blot reprobed with a different antibody using an identical protocol.
  • (2) Replacing radioactively labeled probes by nonradioactive ones and detection by chemiluminescence instead of colorimetry allows a nonhazardous handling and offers the possibility of easily reprobing filters in Southwestern analysis.
  • (3) Repeated strippings and heterologous reprobings resulted in loss of target DNA from UV-immobilized nylon membranes as compared to baked nylon membranes.
  • (4) Thirty-three of sixty-one flies reprobed with an Endotrypanum probe were positive.
  • (5) The recurrent dacryocystocele was reprobed and the abnormality was resolved.
  • (6) DNA from the cDNA-positive cosmid clones was transferred to nylon filters and reprobed with cDNAs to identify restriction fragments that were expressed in these tissues.
  • (7) How did the Republican party allow that reprobate to hijack it?
  • (8) Northern blots reprobed with H1t-specific oligonucleotide showed that H1t mRNA remained prominent when TH2B mRNA started to decline after 8-12 days of coculture.
  • (9) A first technique allows to detect zinc- and DNA-binding proteins immobilized on the membrane; a second (a modification of Southern-Western blotting) makes it possible to detect DNA-binding proteins followed by immunological reprobing.
  • (10) He whips out his smartphone and records the scene, documenting the offence, and confronts the suspected reprobate with a voice which can boom across a street: “Hey!” California drought shaming takes on a class-conscious edge Read more Corcoran is a drought-shamer.
  • (11) New probes, based on sequence that lies beyond other restriction sites, are then synthesized, and the membranes are reprobed to reveal new sequence.
  • (12) Analysis with direct beta counting was also shown not to interfere with the successful reprobing of stripped dot blots with either unique sequence or total genomic probes.
  • (13) In the longer term the Conservatives only get away with supporting universal values like the rule of law and human rights while also condemning non-white foreigners, immigrants and benefit scroungers, because they are always silently whistling that none of the values we supposedly uphold apply to these reprobates.
  • (14) Many specimens among 37 other serum samples showed greater or lesser degrees of homology to different probes, as demonstrated by reprobing of samples fixed to nylon membranes.
  • (15) The hybridized nylon membranes could be stripped of probe and reprobed at least 6 times without loss of signal strength.
  • (16) These conceptions and their cultural influences incidentally inform us about one of the origins of the reprobation of onanism, as well as one possible way, among many others, for traditional thinking to explain the clinical enigma of depressive syndrome.
  • (17) (As told in the 1950 World Cup 'final' MBM from And Gazza Misses The Final , written by the excellent Rob Smyth and some other reprobate.)
  • (18) The Southern blots were reprobed with a cloned fragment of the STA2 glucoamylase gene of S. diastaticus.
  • (19) If the trailer is any indication , this final series will see the various gangsters and reprobates of the prohibition era attempting to legitimise themselves as businessmen.
  • (20) Repeated cycles of oligomer probe synthesis and subsequent reprobing permit rapid sequence walking along the genome.