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Recent Examples of disreputable But how did novels like Liu’s overcome the disreputable status of pulp fiction and gain an international reputation as serious literature? H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024 Somewhere along the way, this gruesome celluloid artifact was elevated from being the sick and disreputable product of a gutter genre to being a high-art masterpiece (Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott all owned 35mm prints of the film). Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024 Until recently, most Israeli Jews viewed such bigoted positions as disreputable. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 In the United States, low-quality batteries made by disreputable manufacturers and installed in low-cost devices—such as vape pens or e-bikes—pose a much greater risk than anything else. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for disreputable 
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Adjective
  • Snell is notorious for running up his pitch count in starts, often exiting by the fifth or sixth inning.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The church was notorious for luring in young industry strivers; one of Scott’s good friends had joined.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That infamous 1911 disaster in Greenwich Village took the lives of 146 garment workers—123 of them women, and many, adolescents, some as young as 14.
    Fiona Alison Duncan, ARTnews.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Every Newcastle fan of a certain generation remembers Ruud Gullit’s infamous spell as manager and the mutiny that was caused by him dropping Alan Shearer, the local hero, for a derby defeat against Sunderland, early in the 1999-2000 season.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • As the protagonist, players have to help a local sushi restaurant and other townspeople resist the shady developers trying to buy up the local property.
    Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • There’s also a pretty, shady green space with a fountain that kids love to run through, plus lots of restaurants and food trucks.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Perez’s criminal history includes 12 felony convictions, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Key Facts An unsealed federal criminal complaint showed Mangione is being charged with murder through use of a firearm, two stalking charges and a firearm offense, CNN reported.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Our state and local leaders are the last defense against unconstitutional and immoral federal policies.
    Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This is perhaps the most immoral aspect of watching members of Congress downplay the impact of melting polar caps or having presidential debates in which the topic of global warming is handled like an afterthought.
    LZ Granderson, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024

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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disreputable. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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