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improbi

improbi is a Latin form of improbus, meaning “wicked, shameless”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

Found 64 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 68: … ut non procul abhorreat ab insania. accedat huc oportet odium parentis, animadversionis paternae metus, amici improbi, servi conscii, tempus idoneum, locus opportune captus ad eam rem; paene dicam, respersas manus sanguine pate …

Plautus, Casina 3.2.550: propter operam illius hirqui ímprobi, edéntuli,

Plautus, Mostellaria 4.1.873: boní sunt: bonúst; improbí sunt, malús fit.

All forms of improbus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.