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a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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Perhaps the most significant case of a disreputable regime moving to shape American policy began when dictator Rafael Trujillo seized control of the Dominican Republic in 1930.
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Aaron Coy Moulton / Made By History, TIME, 28 May 2024
It was considered disreputable work with a status even lower than that of servants.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
Salvador is an antidote that contrasts old-style, even disreputable reporters with contemporary (and contemptuous) media bureaucrats in a profession that has now lost any moral foundation.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
However, this connection breaks down during disreputable exchanges.
—Oliver Schilke, The Conversation, 26 Apr. 2024
In Kingpin, Murray’s character is known as a disreputable colleague opposite Woody Harrelson’s Roy Munson.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
Sandler's Howard, an inveterate and impulsive gambler, disreputable New York jeweler, and womanizer, is a motor-mouthed, immature risk taker.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Their rowdy energy is so willfully disreputable, they must be made by a bunch of know-nothing lunkheads.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Some of the conservatives around MacArthur were rather disreputable, to put it mildly.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
Aaron Coy Moulton / Made By History, TIME, 28 May 2024
It was considered disreputable work with a status even lower than that of servants.
—Melissa Pritchard, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2024
Salvador is an antidote that contrasts old-style, even disreputable reporters with contemporary (and contemptuous) media bureaucrats in a profession that has now lost any moral foundation.
—Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
However, this connection breaks down during disreputable exchanges.
—Oliver Schilke, The Conversation, 26 Apr. 2024
In Kingpin, Murray’s character is known as a disreputable colleague opposite Woody Harrelson’s Roy Munson.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024
Sandler's Howard, an inveterate and impulsive gambler, disreputable New York jeweler, and womanizer, is a motor-mouthed, immature risk taker.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 23 Oct. 2023
Their rowdy energy is so willfully disreputable, they must be made by a bunch of know-nothing lunkheads.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Some of the conservatives around MacArthur were rather disreputable, to put it mildly.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.
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disreputable
adjective
dis·rep·u·ta·ble
(ˈ)dis-ˈrep-yət-ə-bəl 
: not respectable : having a bad reputation
disreputableness
noun
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