reprobar

to condemn

to fail

El colegio educaba gente muy calificada. Pero era algo muy malo para el 80% que él reprobaba.	The school produced some very qualified people, but it was very bad for the 80% he flunked.
Johansen contestó enfadado que sentía que los habían abandonado, y reprobaba al líder por dejar atrás a sus hombres.	Johansen answered angrily that he felt they had been abandoned, and castigated the leader for leaving his men behind.
Tenía una historia publicada en el Chicago Tribune cuando ella se encontraba en la preparatoria, aunque reprobaba la clase de inglés.	She had a story published in the Chicago Tribune when she was in high school, yet she would fail her English class.
Los ascetas porque Buda reprobaba su fanatismo y los Brahmines por que Él rehusaba admitir sus derechos a los privilegios sociales y al conocimiento de la verdad solo por haber nacido brahmín.	The former for his reproval of their fanaticism, the latter for his refusal to admit their rights to social privileges and to the knowledge of truth by right of birth.
Tal vez la autoridad colonial española ante quien estaría presentando este reclamo legal reprobaba su uso, por la misma razón que el obispo de Landa unos tres o seis años después quemó todos los libros mayas sobre los que pudo poner sus manos.	Perhaps the Spanish Colonial authority to whom he would be presenting his legal claim frowned on its use, for much the same reasons that Bishop Landa, some three to six years later, burned all the Maya books he could lay hands on.
La inmaculada pureza de Jesús reprobaba de continuo los pecados de ellos.	His spotless purity was a continual reproof of their sins.
Qué yo reprobaba desde el fondo de mi alma.	I disapproved of it heart and soul.
Era la primera vez que un tribunal internacional reprobaba a México por su inacción en la muerte de centenares de mujeres en Ciudad Juárez.	This represents the first time that an international tribunal has rebuked Mexico for its inaction in the deaths of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez.