Disreputable
[dɪs'repjʊtəb(ə)l] or [dɪs'rɛpjətəbl]
Definition
(adj.) lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance .
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Definition
(a.) Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Discreditable, dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, scandalous, infamous, opprobrious, derogatory, low, mean, vulgar.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REPUTABLE]
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Examples
- The man would soon show himself disreputable enough to make people disbelieve him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I shall be fortunate if gossip does not make me the most disreputable person in the whole affair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the first hour was out, Stephen even began to have an uncomfortable sensation upon him of being for the time a disreputable character. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Garth may wonder, as he must have done before, at this disreputable fellow's claiming intimacy with me; but he will know nothing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the people in manufacturing towns are always disreputable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This particular bit of acting was heightened by the fact that even in the coldest weather he wears thin summer clothes, generally acid-worn and more or less disreputable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The copperhead disreputable portion of the press magnified rebel successes, and belittled those of the Union army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are a fairly disreputable couple by this time because we are beginning to know how much morbidity they represent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He may have been disreputable and wicked, as you say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly respectable self. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- We said it was a low, disreputable falsehood (but we knew it was not). Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Be a man, Jos: break off this disreputable connection. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Second, excessive license taxes forces certain room keepers to resort to disreputable means for keeping alive their business. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Twelve became a noble, generous, and familiar number to him, and thirteen rather an outcast and disreputable one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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