a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
Recent Examples on the WebIn 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 Sections of this informative but unimaginative movie are presented as hectic montages in an apparent attempt to mirror Wolfe’s speedy, ebullient prose, which was modeled in part on the writing of the brilliant and utterly disreputable French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023 Add to this the fabrications and plagiarism of the writers Stephen Glass and Ruth Shalit, and The New Republic of the Peretz era can in retrospect begin to resemble, to many, a leaky, disreputable ghost barge.—Dwight Garner, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023 Put simply, Mareterra isn’t a development where disreputable oligarchs and oil magnates can keep cash away from prying governments’ eyes.—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2023 This was an affront to our general decency, as no silly or disreputable artist had ever previously won a Grammy.—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
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