How To Use Disreputable In A Sentence
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This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area, on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.
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The problem is severest for women, who in Colombia are held in contempt or deemed disreputable for working at all.
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Morally disreputable characters like Rocambole and Fantômas became the stars of ever-extending series of 19th-century romans feuilletons, plotting a course subsequently followed by the likes of Fu Manchu and Count Dracula.
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Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret.
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The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places.
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He had been a leather merchant and a tanner, and had been involved in some disreputable affair.
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The council and the police are trying to get rid of disreputable doormen, and this needs to be done.
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Theaters were in the disreputable part of town, with pimps and gallows and bear-baiting," she said.
Eats and Tweets in the Seats
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Next came the brief period of their artistic glory; then the syncretism of the Renaissance, when these winged messengers were amalgamated with pagan _amoretti_ and began to flutter in foolish baroque fashion about the Queen of Heaven, after the pattern of the disreputable little genii attendant upon a Venus of a bad school.
Old Calabria
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I wish to make it clear that I do not for one moment suggest that any member of the board is or has been guilty of any dishonesty or disreputable comment.
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He said it was worth considering licensing private military companies to encourage reputable ones and eliminate disreputable operators.
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Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any.
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Lane, a somewhat disreputable character, did not turn up to defend himself, and was excommunicated.
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For the meaner the condition of each judge is, the greater will be the severity of judgment with which he will seek to efface the idea of his meanness; and he will strive rather to appear worthy of being classed in the honourable decuries, than to have deservedly ranked in a disreputable one.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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Even psychiatrists feel that it is somehow disreputable to illtreat a woman who doesn't fight back.
Operation: Outer Space
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The exploitation of sectarian disputes within a movement to discredit its members is time-honored and disreputable.
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Maybe they too are rational rather than irrational, morally disreputable rather than organically abnormal, overwhelmed by adversity rather than by wickedness.
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Schwarz had an agent who would serve as the key intermediary for this operation: Trillium, the flower code for a reputed Zionist named Andor Gross, alias Andre György, a chatty and somewhat disreputable intriguer who over the years had been a freelance courier for both the Allied and Axis intelligence services in Istanbul.
Wild Bill Donovan
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In 1981, a noxious earnest effort takes locate in the disreputable H-block of Belfast's Maze Prison. politico inmates, led by Bobby Sands (Fassbender), respond to take until the nation polity acknowledges the FTO as a lawful semipolitical organization.
Planet Malaysia
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I am pretty sure I'm a drink-soaked popinjay myself, and formerly many things of a disreputable nature.
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In olden days, crooks used to shave or clip the edges of coins and then sell the shavings to a disreputable goldsmith or silversmith.
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To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.
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Fans will put up with disreputable behaviour if they think you're OK.
Times, Sunday Times
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He takes the view that the debate in the Republic has polarised between the mainstream parties on one side, the slightly constitutional Sinn Fein and what he calls the disreputable right … He takes issue with Michael McLaughlin's view that the EU is a product of compromise between to great blocks of European opinion, arguing that beyond those two, there is a growing opinion, not least in the accession countries which holds in opposition to "EU federalism and renewed respect for subsidiarity". the second of Slugger's Lisbon Essays, Michael McLaughlin described the EU as a compromise between the forces of Christian Democracy and Social Democracy.
Slugger O'Toole
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They buried him in unconsecrated ground, as befitted a disreputable member of a degenerate profession.
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A sociologist working for Columbia University in 1904 studied a section of the Lower East Side of New York City inhabited by unassimilated immigrants and African Americans, and found that the defining element of its culture was disreputable dancing:
A Renegade History of the United States
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This allows disreputable drivers to monopolize taxi stands, canceling out chances of customers finding a decent cab to travel home in.
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The Serbo-Croatians, for instance, picked up the English word nylon, but took it to mean a kind of shabby and disreputable variation, so that a nylon hotel is a ` brothel 'while a nylon beach is where nudists frolic.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
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The news will intensify the atmosphere of chronic turbulence in the ancient sport, which has been embarrassed by one disreputable incident after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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How shabby and disreputable is this party which aspires to wrap itself in the British Flag.
Labour's Falkland's Shame
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More recently, in Canada at least, it is associated with cheap and dirty accommodation (such as fleabag motels and run-down rooming), as well as with prostitution and other disreputable or illegal activities.
The Big Apple
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A public place of entertainment , especially a cheap or disreputable music hall or theater.
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Is 'cutty' the disreputable word? for I think I 've passed that rank already; it sounds quite familiar.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
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We learn also that he smokes opium and hangs out in disreputable neighborhoods where he presumably takes drugs and employs the services of prostitutes.
Archive 2007-02-01
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All of these things must surely point to him being one of the most thoroughly disreputable fellows ever to appear on the British stage, before he even opened his mouth.
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I see any business or charity that needs to use unsolicited bulk emails as a means of marketing itself, tends to be a disreputable organisation.
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Medals can denote honorable deeds as well as ones that are questionable or disreputable.
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Before then, there was something faintly disreputable about really big fortunes.
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
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He had been a leather merchant and a tanner, and had been involved in some disreputable affair.
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The Mail On Sunday might be a sewer of sleaze and disreputable journalism, but gadzooks, it does have its uses sometimes..
Mark Clarke: Womaniser and general bastard?
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It is disreputable, and in relying upon him you do yourself damage.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Disreputable souvenir-mongers might try to convince you that crystal glass, or crystallin, is lead crystal, but it's easy to tell the difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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She broke into a relieved smile to discover I was a virtuous widow and not a disreputable single mother, as I was, and passed the news around, so that the rest of the vacation allowed me to "mourn" while basking in benevolent glances.
Travel solo, never alone
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One of the most beautiful models that I know of in modern history is furnished by the town to which reference has already been made—the town of Mulhouse, where, after some thirty years, the spirit of brotherliness has so entered into the relationships of capital and labor that a firm would be disreputable which there attempted to carry on business as business is ordinarily done here.
Black and White
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June 27, 2007 2:32 PM , disreputable broon said...
Alan Duncan Wins the Newsnight Battle with Quentin Davies
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Though much of its affiliation has remained with low-income communities, the steelband movement has kept itself and its image separate from the surging criminality now making many such communities both disreputable and unlivable.
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Maybe they too are rational rather than irrational, morally disreputable rather than organically abnormal, overwhelmed by adversity rather than by wickedness.
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Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any.
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This is why the assertion that cheaper tickets represent a redistribution from greedy owners to hard-working fans is so intellectually disreputable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Travis, Dallas, Sean and Mike look like the kind of disreputable longhairs that southern sheriffs were always trying to run out of town in movies from the Sixties.
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He encouraged even disreputable women to interact with him.
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Our steed was a very lank, bony, long-eared mule, and the vehicle a rather disreputable looking old delivery wagon, kindly loaned to us by our grocer; but we were thankful for anything that would take us safely.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889
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If she went in the back, she might come across some of the more disreputable characters that would turn her act into a reality.
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Images seen as acceptable when branded as art became something disreputable when passed under the table in pubs ).
Times, Sunday Times
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By degrees the quality gave up going , and the fair, of course, became disreputable.
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Some people -- don't know who, but they sound disreputable -- think that the people who write about the Park 51 Islamic Community Center being some kind of wellspring for birthing American-born terror babies are nuts.
News & Politics
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But disreputable , illiterate and ignorant though he was, Fegelein seems to have been possessed of a simon-pure instinct for survival.
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The American people have stubbornly refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a disreputable anachronism.
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Some of the more disreputable newspapers made false claims about her private life.
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He treats the establishment as a disreputable mafia rather than an exclusive coterie.
Times, Sunday Times
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What he does want is a woman amiable as a surface of parchment, serviceable as his inkstand; one who will be like the wig in which he closes his forensic term, disreputable from overwear, but suited to the purpose.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.
Vanity Fair
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They made an odd pair, she bony and remote, he heavy, grubby and vaguely disreputable.
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He's not beautiful either but pleasant to look at, one of those broad high-cheeked faces one sees so much in the West, with the funniest quick yellowish grey eyes and the most disreputable moustache I ever saw, yellow and ragged, If he must eat it, I wish he would _eat it off even_ clear across.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation
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This is truly disgusting stuff - morally despicable and professionally disreputable.
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Is there still something disreputable about it?
Times, Sunday Times
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The search for the disreputable which reinforces the notion of difference as objectified otherness is often carried out with the help of Third World women themselves.
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Some of the more disreputable newspapers made false claims about her private life.
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Would you believe that, in the spring after the book was published, a disreputable-looking vagabond with a knapsack, who turned up one day, blarneyed Andrew about his book and stayed overnight, announced himself at breakfast as a leading New York publisher?
Parnassus on Wheels
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To transform a scholarly consensus into something that appears the obsession of a disreputable fringe group requires more than accidental bias.
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By degrees the quality gave up going , and the fair, of course, became disreputable.
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.
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He also had an inclination to attach himself, whether as ally or enemy, to dangerous and disreputable people.
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The devious, dishonest, disreputable old cadger that he is.
The Friday Cyril: Wednesday's Rochdale Obbie Postbag
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One day, his disreputable and drunken manservant appeared at table in a yellow coat.
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Rebecca Sharp — in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man.
Vanity Fair
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I think of all the disreputable low-cost manufacturers you might take this to and what they would say about this beautiful quarter walnut and multiple-layer laminate plywood: ‘Some lithographed laminate will look just as good.’
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I prefer horror to be a cheap, easy lay of a genre: disreputable, badly behaved, unapologetic and nasty.
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All Lirael needed to make the moment perfect was the presence of her best friend, the Disreputable Dog.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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There are communities in this free land of ours in which the wearing of a coat at dinner is a most disreputable mark of dudism.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York
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This stretch of the river featured in a book's opening scenes, when a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance was seen.
Times, Sunday Times
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By degrees the quality gave up going , and the fair, of course, became disreputable.
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He's not some disreputable, anti-social obsessive -- he's a veritable exegete of 9/11 anomalies, as fluent in the jargon of physics as he is in political dialectics.
9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
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So much self-serving tub-thumping rubbish has been talked about ‘Moral Re-Armament’ that the phrase is disreputable.
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In olden days, crooks used to shave or clip the edges of coins and then sell the shavings to a disreputable goldsmith or silversmith.
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He also wrote some not wholly disreputable poetry.
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The earl, my father, chose to take umbrage at what he called my disreputable --
Self-Raised
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In discussing "The Night Café" 1888, a well-known depiction of a disreputable barroom in Arles—a jarring composition featuring bright yellow gaslight shining on blood-red walls—they tell us that "Vincent began his dissonant painting in a dissonant mood.
A Stranger to Himself
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Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so.
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A public place of entertainment , especially a cheap or disreputable music hall or theater.
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He was no longer en - tirely disreputable, for men like Justus Lipsius (who was so influential amonst both Protestants and Catho - lics) were separating the results of his dry, scientific, and realistic approach from some of his political maxims, which were still too crafty and cruel for ac - ceptance in respectable circles.
BALANCE OF POWER
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In pre-Las Vegas America, when gambling was illicit and had a louche charm, the natural domain of the disreputable was the poker table, the race track and the pool hall.
A Good Lie
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There is certainly something disreputable in smearing a legitimate scientific theory, transfroming it into a “philosophy” that does not exist, and assuming that atheists automatically subscribe to this “philosiphy” you made up in your head.
Pious Atheism « Anglican Samizdat
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All Lirael needed to make the moment perfect was the presence of her best friend, the Disreputable Dog.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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You have got yourself a little reputation by your literary talents, which I am very far from undervaluing, though in my time, begad, poetry and genius and that sort of thing were devilish disreputable.
The History of Pendennis
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In another experiment, some students were presented with an official university Web site and asked to complete an on-screen survey about whether they had performed certain disreputable acts.
Our Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Privacy - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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For other sports, cricket makes for a perfectly disreputable villain.
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Actually, it seems that it's neither a product of the Google/Pyra buy-out, a technical glitch, nor a sign that no advertizer, however disreputable, wishes to be associated with this effort.
02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003
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This is truly disgusting stuff - morally despicable and professionally disreputable.
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And far be it from me to make the same disreputable charge in reverse.
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He also had an inclination to attach himself, whether as ally or enemy, to dangerous and disreputable people.
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He worked in the most disreputable realms of the already dubious area of Hollywood low-budget filmmaking.
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Some economists do, however, take sides in a most disreputable way.
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There is something in us that resists the idea of unalloyed evil/badness in even the most disreputable governments.
Michael Brenner: Ben Bernanke -- Now and Forevermore
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This wish to "decriminalize" disreputable behavior that "harms no one" - and thus remove the ultimate sanction the police can employ to maintain neighborhood order — is, we think, a mistake.
Broken Windows
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He had a vaguely disreputable appearance.