semireformed en · ADJ
Etymology
From semi- + reformed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Reformed to a certain degree.
Many of his stock characters (the pastor with a secret, the nosy neighbors, the semireformed ex-con, the stuttering pimp) and melodramatic revelations would be at home in a play by Tyler Perry, Shelly Garrett, Angela Barrow-Dunlap or David E. Talbert.
2007 August 20, Kelefa Sanneh, “Outrageous Farce From R. Kelly: He’s In on the Joke, Right?”, in New York Times: