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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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Dan Simms, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Several of the participants are social media sensations or generally successful in different fields that the series treats as disreputable.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 11 Feb. 2026
To do so means cutting ties with the disreputable agencies that got them here, and Jonah won’t do it.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
Having come to the priesthood as a refuge from a disreputable, pugilistic past, O’Connor’s Jud holds tightly to his faith in the Catholic institution, even as Josh Brolin’s odious Monsignor Wicks reveals himself to have built a cult of domination and cruelty in his small town.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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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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