How to Use disrepute in a Sentence

disrepute

noun

• The theory has been in disrepute for years.
• Corporate leaders did not want to return to the disrepute of the 1930s.
  — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
• Nikias and others concealing the truth have brought shame and disrepute to USC.They all need to be accountable.
  — Amy Lieu, Fox News, 26 May 2018
• Here, six ways to rescue the random spaces under a home’s eaves from disrepute.
  — Nina Molina, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
• When did the notion of nation-building fall into disrepute, and why?
  — Laura King, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• Those and other embarrassments brought the field into disrepute in the West.
  — Mara Hvistendahl, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• And that will be the same time when actual video evidence falls into disrepute.
  — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
• In Ghana, disrepute, ridicule or contempt of office suffice.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
• By the end of the Obama years, the entire concept of for-profit higher education had sunk into disrepute.
  — James Lardner, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Adding to its disrepute, the business of smuggling people over the border is now entirely controlled by organized crime, at least in the Rio Grande Valley.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
• Instagram likewise bestows fame (and filters and fans) on the beautiful and can banish them to infamy and disrepute.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
• These reports risk bringing all of our offices into disrepute.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• The shift to alternatives comes ahead of a year-end deadline to end the use of Libor, which fell into disrepute after a manipulation scandal.
  — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• Grift at the level of the Kentucky Derby, and the trainer Bob Baffert’s career of breezy impunity, only deepen its disrepute among the general public.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• The scams and subsequent law enforcement stings left a stench of disrepute on the broader crypto industry—one that has helped obscure the real progress made by ventures like Filecoin and PolkaDot.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2020
• But at some point these approaches came into disrepute, at least in their most overt manifestations.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
• Under the game’s rules, players can be removed for behavior that results in public disrepute, offends the public or damages its image, Blizzard said, adding that the two hosts were also fired.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
• But even Hastings isn’t immune from falling into disrepute.
  — Olivia-Anne Cleary, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2021
• But in recent years, this puritanical approach to managing the ups and downs of the economy had fallen into disrepute.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
• Cayo Coco resurrects the glory of mid-20th century drinks like Mai Tais, and frozen cocktails like daiquiris that have been cheapened into disrepute over the decades by overly sweet, premixed mutations.
  — Eric Velasco, al, 5 Dec. 2019
• Russia’s Olympic weightlifting team is barred entirely for bringing its sport into disrepute and the track team consists of only one athlete, Darya Klishina, who gets a waiver to compete because she has been based abroad.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Yet despite the disrepute of his recent past, Howard, 38, is in the midst of repositioning himself as a Hollywood player, developing multiple projects in the white-hot true-crime arena.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2020
• Scandals over things as diverse as bid rigging, cost overruns, plagiarism and misogynistic comments by the head of the Japanese Olympic committee piled disrepute on the Games.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• After falling into disrepute a decade ago in the wake of a manipulation scandal, the world’s largest banks and regulators world-wide are scheduled to abandon the short-term borrowing benchmark by year-end.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
• These clauses enable a company to exit or suspend a contract when the athlete brings disrepute on either himself/herself or the company.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• The decision reflects concern that, in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine, the inclusion of a Russian entry in this year’s Contest would bring the competition into disrepute.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 Feb. 2022
• The song was soon dropped after both the club and player publicly chastised the offending fans for their behaviour, but the incident serves as a chilling reminder that such regressive attitudes are still bringing the game into disrepute.
  — SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• But Protestant involvement in Guatemalan politics has been messy, and plentiful compromises have dragged the faith into disrepute.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• But addressing monuments to people, parties and movements that have fallen into disrepute has not been simple in Germany, or elsewhere in Europe.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• Because such people possessed no special skill or status, the word gradually fell into disrepute.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024