The suggestion that the money he had striven for from youth to age should go to some reprobate foreigner, to pay his gambling-debts, nearly threw him into a convulsion .
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That is a reprobate person! This answer is mainly for kids adults f you want to use it here's one: That mad cat was a reprobate because he broke the law one too many times!