gone bad vs reprobate

gone bad

adj
  • Of a person or entity, having ceased to be reputable and having instead become delinquent, criminal, or poorly behaved. 

  • Of a region or area, having become unsafe. 

  • Of a delinquent or criminal act, having unexpectedly become more violent than is typical for that act—having resulted in an attack on a victim leading to serious injury or death. 

  • Of foods and commodities, having become spoiled, rotten, or otherwise unusable due to age or storage conditions. 

reprobate

adj
  • Immoral, having no religious or principled character. 

  • Rejected by God; damned, sinful. 

  • Rejected; cast off as worthless. 

noun
  • One rejected by God; a sinful person. 

  • An individual with low morals or principles. 

verb
  • To refuse, set aside. 

  • To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn. 

  • Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss. 

How often have the words gone bad and reprobate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )