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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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With World War II moving into the realm of history, in the mid-1950s Jews were being depicted not as alien or disreputable immigrants but rather as members of a respected American religion, reflected in a middlebrow literary culture that reached a mainstream audience.
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Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
Collecting vast sums of cash-on-loan from some particularly disreputable business associates, Charles opened The Egyptian Tomb Lounge in Reno, Nevada, which operated for a grand total of four months before unceremoniously burning to the ground.
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
This 2003 film, from the notoriously disreputable German director Uwe Boll, contained practically no coherent ideas, and its primary motivation seemed to be to cram as many bare breasts, exploding corpses and nu-metal songs into one movie as the Motion Picture Association of America would allow.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 21 May 2025
But Bertha can’t allow her daughter to run blindly into a disreputable match, knowing full well what will happen to a woman whose fantasy wedding ends in the cold reality of divorce.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
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Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 17 June 2025
Collecting vast sums of cash-on-loan from some particularly disreputable business associates, Charles opened The Egyptian Tomb Lounge in Reno, Nevada, which operated for a grand total of four months before unceremoniously burning to the ground.
—Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
This 2003 film, from the notoriously disreputable German director Uwe Boll, contained practically no coherent ideas, and its primary motivation seemed to be to cram as many bare breasts, exploding corpses and nu-metal songs into one movie as the Motion Picture Association of America would allow.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 21 May 2025
But Bertha can’t allow her daughter to run blindly into a disreputable match, knowing full well what will happen to a woman whose fantasy wedding ends in the cold reality of divorce.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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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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