disreputable

adjective dis·rep·u·ta·ble \ (ˌ)dis-ˈre-pyə-tə-bəl \

|Updated on: 22 Jun 2018

Examples: disreputable in a Sentence

Definition of disreputable

: not reputable

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disreputability

play \(ˌ)dis-ˌre-pyə-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē\ noun

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disreputableness

play \(ˌ)dis-ˈre-pyə-tə-bəl-nəs\ noun

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disreputably

play \-blē\ adverb

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Examples of disreputable in a Sentence

a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds

Recent Examples of disreputable from the Web

The 1972 Super Fly, cheaply made, unapologetically disreputable and brazenly cathartic, is one big coke-snort-a-go-go; barely a scene goes by without someone taking a hit.

— stephanie zacharek, Time, "Review: A New Superfly Gets By on Surface Pleasures—and Great Hair," 13 June 2018
Each actor read a scene written specifically for the tryout—all the better to keep The Good Place’s secrets a secret—in which Janet had been reimagined as a kind of customer-service agent for a disreputable company.

— laura bradley, HWD, "How The Good Place Built Janet, TV’s Most Scene-Stealing Not-a-Robot," 4 June 2018
Instead of wailing about the source of some funding for the conservative/libertarian scholars at George Mason University, why don’t the UnKoch people try to argue that those faculty members are teaching badly or producing disreputable research?

— WSJ, "What Would Old George Mason Say and Do?," 20 May 2018
As such they were regarded as a somewhat disreputable phenomenon.

— Longreads, "When the Movies Went West," 15 May 2018
And next door in Alabama, Gov. Kay Ivey is making her work to protect Confederate monuments a signature–and a shout-out to an old, disreputable tradition.

— ed kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "The Political Uses of The Anti-Anti-Confederacy," 19 Apr. 2018
To many, the impeachment power seemed tarnished and disreputable.

— laurence tribe and joshua matz, WSJ, "The Danger of Constant Impeachment Talk," 4 May 2018
In fact, nine of the top 10 movies on the list are sci-fi movies—which, over the past 50 years or so, have gone from disreputable and generally unsuccessful B-movies to the only game in town (save, perhaps, the occasional live-action Disney remake).

— scott meslow, GQ, "Can James Cameron Predict the Future of Sci-fi Movies?," 1 May 2018
The title is a reference to his early years ascending a fashion ladder invisible and disreputable to his stern Catholic family.

— matthew schneier, New York Times, "Bill Cunningham Left Behind a Secret Memoir," 21 Mar. 2018

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