What's the difference between miscreant and reprobate?

Miscreant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
  • (n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
  • (a.) Holding a false religious faith.
  • (a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
  • (2) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
  • (3) The theory was that cracking down on petty crimes would discourage miscreants from committing bigger ones.
  • (4) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
  • (5) Corcoran grinned and cycled off, resuming the hunt for miscreants.
  • (6) "It seems that innocent civilians are once again are at the mercy of miscreants."
  • (7) Take the "human flesh search engines" – internet users who band together to track down and expose miscreants, such as abusive officials.
  • (8) It could simply withhold government work from any miscreant banks (or other businesses).
  • (9) "The technical trail is indelible – it has the fingerprints of the miscreant all over it.
  • (10) Miscreants stopped the bus, broke the windows and … then hurled petrol bombs,” said Karmokar, 22, who was being treated for burns to his face and hands at Dhaka medical hospital.
  • (11) Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant."
  • (12) The move provoked a cacophony of calls for honours to be stripped from other miscreant bankers, politicians and regulators.
  • (13) Official rhetoric is sectarian and blames foreign and Islamist armed miscreants for the violence.
  • (14) They would entail inspection rights, demands for firmer data on rate-setting practices, rather than the widespread use of estimates, and powers to fine miscreants.
  • (15) The US actor is also expected to reprise her role as musician Dana Barrett in a forthcoming third Ghostbusters movie in which her on-screen son will battle the series' trademark spooky miscreants.
  • (16) In "Left Foot Forward", his "political blog for progressives", Master Straw boldly misrepresents one of the miscreant's pieces, in order to attract new signatories to the "stop Liddle" campaign and thus protect our wives and servants.
  • (17) He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called “parallel state” supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud .
  • (18) Particularly as the parade of miscreants through US courts, and new revelations, continue.
  • (19) The local press blamed the fires on “miscreants” from nearby communities.
  • (20) While these two miscreants obviously are guilty of losing control – banged to rights on video – one or two of those who live alongside them and make a good living with them might like to ask themselves when they forgot their manners, when they strayed into the Land Of No Consequences.

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.