as in notorious
not respectable
a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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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?
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disreputable
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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
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The three death row inmates who aren’t included in Biden’s list on Monday include two notorious mass shooters, as well as the person who killed multiple people at the Boston Marathon, The New York Times reported.Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 23 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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Image On a recent muggy Saturday morning, a few dozen people — from restless children and lanky teenagers to men and women in their 50s and 60s — flocked to the shady overpass.María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Then there’s Ferrer’s arm surfacing in the last episode, which has to be going somewhere, and now Deb’s entanglement with a shady new character.Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
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Pointing a laser at an airplane is a federal crime, and conviction can result in civil and criminal penalties and up to five years in jail.Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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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
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Our state and local leaders are the last defense against unconstitutional and immoral federal policies.Murad Awawdeh, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
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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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