Adjective : a disreputable barroom. ,disreputable clothes. From Dictionary.com.
He brushed at it, but it stuck out, hanging disreputably over one eye. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
And hey: if you say they're acting disreputably/unethically, why don't you say something to them?. From Wordnik.com. [It’s a Small World After All] Reference
Old Mazey, in his way, proved to be just as disreputably inclined on certain occasions as the dogs. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
By contrast, there are thousands of judges and prosecutors actively engaged in the corrections business, some disreputably. From Wordnik.com. [Polanski: To Hate or Not to Hate] Reference
It was a new luxury to this woman, who had knocked about the world so long and so disreputably, to feel safe and able to be good. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
Turrentine came in late, weary from their work of hauling corn to that destination which old Nancy had announced as disreputably indefinite. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
His thick brown hair had fallen half out of its binding, and several cowlicks were sticking straight up, the rest fallen disreputably over one eye. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
But don't blame lobbyists or corporations who look after their own interests no more keenly or disreputably than parents guard the interests of their own children. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
The mammoth sleigh went at a disreputably low speed. From Wordnik.com. [Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life] Reference
School was disgraced by so disreputably dirty a boy as I!. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Anthony Trollope] Reference
In fact, they were all three exceedingly, almost disreputably, shabby. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California] Reference
The fellow was known i 'the camp of the crusaders -- disreputably known. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Loudville was a humble, an almost disreputably humble, suburb of the little provincial city. From Wordnik.com. [The Portion of Labor] Reference
True, child, it was rather a disreputably iransaflion j and 'tis therefore fit no part of it should. From Wordnik.com. [British theatre] Reference
Lizzie had been disreputably concerned in stealing her own necklace, seemed to have been laid aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
Her hair was flying from its moorings; her face flamed; and her hat sat at a disreputably rakish angle. From Wordnik.com. [Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest] Reference
You stole that information just as disreputably as that man stole the documents from Mr. Kenyon's pocket. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Intervenes] Reference
Cooks Source takes the position that the writers are somehow to blame for disreputably ... submitting their work?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
This worthy had a bored, good-natured, unbuttoned, expansive look; was talkative, restless, almost disreputably human. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
Mrs. Hermann let Lena cherish and hug that bundle of rags to that extent, it was so disreputably and completely unclean. From Wordnik.com. [Falk] Reference
While I stood peering into the thicket, a man whom I knew came along the road, and caught me thus disreputably employed. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Bush] Reference
Houses up the canyon, so-called, of which eight are habitable, and forty-six simply awful; they are disreputably disgraceful. From Wordnik.com. [The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition] Reference
In vain Daisy's frock pleaded for that great rent made yesterday, and Harold's socks showed themselves most disreputably out at heels. From Wordnik.com. [How It All Came Round] Reference
Medially if you a ictodosauria in your fluting it paradigm pay off to boulevardier an tinderbox or so antacid disreputably the fontenoy. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
I was only surprised that Mrs. Hermann let Lena cherish and hug that bundle of rags to that extent, it was so disreputably and completely unclean. From Wordnik.com. [Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow] Reference
S disreputably armoured that we run out of radioactively victoria for equipping, safely in the suprasegmental digram, and overmuch for caimitillo. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Listlessly a of translunary annamite kremlin pungently, he may be the disreputably decreased gallinaceous man i steelworks seen in imperviousness. From Wordnik.com. [POWET.TV] Reference
You have behaved disreputably; and if the blame of it, starting from somewhere in the past, lies at your mother's door or mine, we must sorrowfully beg your pardon. From Wordnik.com. [Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales] Reference
Their limbs are becoming contracted from sheer idleness; while all the other men are well and getting stronger they alone are disreputably slovenly and useless-looking. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
A Madame de Surmont now gave them shelter, at Bar-sur-Aube, and Jeanne married, very disreputably, her heavy admirer, La Motte, calling himself Count, and to all appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Mysteries] Reference
Tonight the old King wore a disreputably rusty gown of black stuff, with fur about the neck and sleeves of it, and his scant white hair was covered by a very shabby black cap. From Wordnik.com. [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference
Paris attic to light their charcoal fire, stop up the chinks with their love-letters, and die (very disreputably) 'clasped in one another's arms, and silent in a last embrace.'. From Wordnik.com. [Some Private Views] Reference
The fellow was known i’ the camp of the crusaders — disreputably known. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
There never were two words that meant all things to all men so disreputably! ". From Wordnik.com. [Marcella] Reference
Potter’s powder room was, to say the least, as disreputably maintained as the rest of his domain. From Wordnik.com. [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference
It also pleased me, in some disreputably aesthetic way, to see my friend’s certainties under pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
His eyes were pale blue and disreputably alert. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: In the Kitchen by Monica Ali] Reference
The chances of making money disreputably are so great that the chances are against a man who has made money if he's made a great deal of it. '". From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
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