Adjective : a disreputable barroom. ,disreputable clothes. From Dictionary.com.
Which, of course, shows why it still manages an essential disreputability, which is one of the things that always attracts me to culture Comics, Videogames, Pop Music – my essential troika. From Wordnik.com. [Arrant & Gillen talk the comic rock talk] Reference
Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
Mother Teresa, as peace Nobelist, 50; disreputability of, 89. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
The beard only intensified his good looks, adding the dubious charm of disreputability. From Wordnik.com. [Where There's Smoke]
A few years back umbrellas of every imaginable size and shape and colour and degree of disreputability were in evidence in the streets of Poona City. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Brianna had seen it too-there couldn't be many cars in Inverness of that specific color and disreputability-and pointed at it, saying, "Look, Mama, isn't that Roger Wakefield's car?". From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
All in all, this is such an impressive list of lively, trend-setting, even radical programming — imagine the past fifteen years of prime time without it — that you may wonder how Fox has managed to preserve its air of disreputability. From Wordnik.com. [The Murdoch Touch] Reference
Peter Clark has suggested that Puritan emphasis on the disreputability of alehouses has tended to overshadow the more respectable inns and taverns, and draws a clear social distinction between the clientele of the former, who were recruited from the bottom half of the social order, and the more gentlemanly patrons of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong Side of the River: London's disreputable South Bank in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Jessica A. Browner] Reference
The second thought has to do with Edwards--Edwards may well turn out to be the king maker in this election--Depending on results of the mega primaries, he could have enough delgates to throw to Obama and sink HRC--certainly the egregious robo calls from the clinton campaign criticizing him on fair trade, when BILL himself signed NAFTA speaks to the disreputability and the sheer perfidiousness of the Clintons and their machine. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for the South Carolina results.] Reference
Irish history, for reasons of disreputability or gender. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Behind her was standing a painted woman of notorious disreputability. From Wordnik.com. [The Magician] Reference
Comedian Stephen Fry told the BBC Thursday that he was charmed by Freud's "air of disreputability.". From Wordnik.com. [phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed] Reference
Um, Dilan is trying to imply that Hayek is akin to Larmarck and Ptolemy in disreputability/quackitude. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Peter, in his disreputability, felt like a man in the open air who looks into the prison of a sick-room. From Wordnik.com. [The Lee Shore] Reference
A bar took up the side of the room next the entrance, and a general air of disreputability filled the place. From Wordnik.com. [Blindfolded] Reference
Also, the main reason for laughing at that crowd-well, one of the main reasons-is the political disreputability of their interpretation. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
"That will show itself without," defying your attempts to look as it were cold tea, gives a crushing touch of disreputability to the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [Suburban Sketches] Reference
Later on, he became more particular in his associates -- that is to say, he demanded of them something more than mere disreputability, to use the conventional word. From Wordnik.com. [An Anarchist Woman] Reference
Possibly owing to the borderline disreputability of the genre, filmmakers almost always take the lazy way out, striving just enough to goose us with a procession of. From Wordnik.com. [DesiPundit] Reference
I wouldn't label Arjun, for instance, as "masala" as the element of cockeyed, cheesy disreputability isn't there (which was there in Family, courtesy that scene with the lion on the screen). From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
In many ways, the Beyoncé hobo embodies the weird melding of pop culture, absurdity and vague disreputability that makes Akihabara - or Akiba, as it's known - such an appealing place to explore. From Wordnik.com. [Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In the saloons the disreputability was cheerful, and cheerfully acknowledged with lights and noise, here of a broken piano, there of a wheezy accordion, and, beyond, of a half-drunken man singing or shouting a ribald song. From Wordnik.com. [Blindfolded] Reference
From every point it is a masterpiece, this picture of boy life in a little lazy, drowsy town, with all the irresponsibility and general disreputability of boy character coupled with that indefinable, formless, elusive something we call boy conscience, which is more likely to be boy terror and a latent instinct of manliness. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900] Reference
There was not much chance, indeed, that the former occupations of the clerk or the parson would be guessed at, for every scrap of respectability had long ago been washed out of them by drink, and their greasy coats, battered hats, dirty and ragged linen, were, if possible, lower in the scale of disreputability than the rough garments of the burglar. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trawler] Reference
That French representative of the appropriately popular poetry of modern ideas, which prefers "the roses and raptures of vice" to "the lilies and languors of virtue," cannot have been irredeemably reconciled by the sweet savours of the domestic pot-au jeu, even when spiced with pungent whiffs of repudiated disreputability, to any selfish betrayal of the cause of universal social emancipation from the personal proprieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
A swaggering air of braggadocio had set off his Bohemian garb: but never had the demoralised disreputability of Paragot struck me until I saw him in the Luxembourg Gardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
With the left always keen to shout,’ racist’ it has been important that the moral probity and academic respectability of the organisation ` s work has been beyond reproach and it is hugely to their credit that they are immunised to charges of disreputability, by the high quality of their methods, and the opposing scandalous spin of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-04] Reference
"And another element to him which perhaps should not go unmentioned is his raffishness, if you like, his air of disreputability. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Murdoch, Rupert, Fox overlord, baffling creepiness of, 166; cultural contradictions of, 166; cultivated disreputability of, 167. From Wordnik.com. [Who's Who] Reference
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