How to Use disreputable in a Sentence

disreputable

adjective

• Yet some players in this industry go out of their way to come off as disreputable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2021
• Such a move is seen as disreputable by many, in part because of the threat of escalation.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The other district used to be held by the disreputable Matt Gaetz.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Just a few decades ago, horror films were mostly considered disreputable and schlocky.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 1 Nov. 2018
• Once upon a time, a punk was a person, and generally a disreputable one.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• It was considered disreputable work with a status even lower than that of servants.
  — Melissa Pritchard, The Conversation, 15 May 2024
• Wealth is derived from many sources and qualities, often disreputable ones.
  — Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
• The business of democracy once again seemed toxic, sludgy, and disreputable.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Mar. 2022
• And neither the Saudis, nor anyone else, would have dared do something so brazen and disreputable again.
  — Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books, 3 June 2020
• As Marshall notes, this is standard racist rhetoric with a deep and disreputable history.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 June 2018
• The idea of controlling weather is now regarded as a bit disreputable.
  — National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2017
• 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
• To many, the impeachment power seemed tarnished and disreputable.
  — Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz, WSJ, 4 May 2018
• In the '60s, comics was a fledgling industry, even disreputable.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2021
• At one point, Cicero asks how a disreputable woman like Clodia should be punished.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
• Bottom-line is that there are ways to make these disreputable undertakings harder and more costly to perform.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• Turning Wikipedia pages into a book is bizarre and disreputable, but possibly legal.
  — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2012
• Some of the conservatives around MacArthur were rather disreputable, to put it mildly.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• But in Wilde’s day, the church was still the Scarlet Woman, home for the disreputable and deplorable.
  — William McGurn, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
• Did his theoretical brilliance counter the weight of disreputable rages?
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• In the disreputable pantheon of Netflix teensploitation, this one’s close to the bottom.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2022
• Nice, but Trump continues his attacks on free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
  — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
• Their provenance erased, the precious metals and gems could be sold to diamond dealers, pawn shops or disreputable jewelers, one of the men said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• Some floaters work for outlets that are too new to have been included in the most recent seating chart; others work for outlets that are marginal or disreputable.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• What a waste that in practice, the film would turn out to be the plainest version of itself, all but bereft of the knowing humor and grabby perversion that makes this disreputable genre great.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 19 May 2021
• Her pattern was disrupted by Balthazar Blades settling himself at one end of the bar, smiling with all his disreputable charm.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2025
• The problem there seemed to be that the AI search tool was sourcing its answers from disreputable clinics that were offering unproven treatments.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 13 June 2024
• What’s more, the only non-Civil War use of Section 3 was entirely disreputable.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 July 2022
• There were some people who didn't like my being deeply involved with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan and disreputable rock 'n' rollers.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2020