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disreputable

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1. disreputable - Noun

2. disreputable - Adjective

Meaning

Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. Kenneth Clark

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? Jasper Fforde

I am the Disreputable Dog. Or Disreputable Bitch, if you want to get technical. When are we going for a walk? Garth Nix

I sat on the edge of the bed and stared at her in amazement. It was on reputedly disreputable Beale Street in Memphis that I had met the warmest, friendliest person I had ever known, that I discovered that all human beings were not mean and driving, were not bigots like the members of my family. Richard Wright

Here's to dodgy adventures with disreputable relatives! Stephen R. Lawhead

Powell looks at me in Cabinet like Savonarola eyeing one of the more disreputable popes. Enoch Powell

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