a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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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 The characters in Thunderbolts* (asterisk theirs) are all minor foes and disreputable allies who’ve turned up over the last few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disreputable
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