DISREPUTABLY Synonyms: 94 Similar and Opposite Words

disreputable

adjective

(ˌ)dis-ˈre-pyə-tə-bəl

as in notorious

not respectable a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds

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Recent Examples of disreputable Having come to the priesthood as a refuge from a disreputable, pugilistic past, O’Connor’s Jud holds tightly to his faith in the Catholic institution, even as Josh Brolin’s odious Monsignor Wicks reveals himself to have built a cult of domination and cruelty in his small town. —

Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025 At one point, Cicero asks how a disreputable woman like Clodia should be punished. —

Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025 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 And none are more uniquely disreputable than the McPoyle clan, the perpetually clammy, milk-guzzling, creepily incestuous former schoolmates led by the exquisitely repulsive Liam (Jimmi Simpson) and Ryan (Nate Mooney). —

Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for disreputable

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He was booked into the Erie County Holding Center, a maximum-security complex once notorious for inadequate medical and mental health care.

— Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
Enthralled by Felipe Rose, a go-go boy decked out in Native American regalia at the Anvil, a notorious gay Manhattan disco, Morali applied that approach to his next conceptual act, Village People.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026