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a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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Salvador is an antidote that contrasts old-style, even disreputable reporters with contemporary (and contemptuous) media bureaucrats in a profession that has now lost any moral foundation.
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Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
However, this connection breaks down during disreputable exchanges.
—Oliver Schilke, The Conversation, 26 Apr. 2024
In 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
Armond White, National Review, 26 Apr. 2024
However, this connection breaks down during disreputable exchanges.
—Oliver Schilke, The Conversation, 26 Apr. 2024
In 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
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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disreputable
adjective
dis·rep·u·ta·ble
(ˈ)dis-ˈrep-yət-ə-bəl 
: not respectable : having a bad reputation
disreputableness
noun
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