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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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His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.
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Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
—David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Upon approval, my land lease community refused to cooperate, citing the disreputable program.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
—David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Upon approval, my land lease community refused to cooperate, citing the disreputable program.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 22 Dec. 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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