Adjective : a disreputable barroom. ,disreputable clothes. From Dictionary.com.
It is not, perhaps, so very strange that in those days, in view of the disreputableness of those whose cause they espoused, and the apparently utter hopelessness of anything ever coming out of it, the supporters of Anti-Slaveryism should be suspected of being "out of their heads.". From Wordnik.com. [The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights] Reference
It was much the same in disreputableness of aspect as when he left it. From Wordnik.com. [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference
Is the daughter of a courtesy Baron who died -- of general disreputableness, I believe -- before his father --?. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
He evidently recognised them as a sort of scurvy spirits, good to be slighted, because of their disreputableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II] Reference
Comayagüela in all the disreputableness of fifteen days on the trail, across the little bridge of a few arches over a shallow river which to. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond] Reference
But the man of men for villains, not necessarily criminals; but the ordinary, every-day, picturesque worthies of good, honest scoundrelism and disreputableness is Sir Robert Louis Stevenson. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicious Vice] Reference
It would be necessary to clean him to make a close guess at his age; but he is under forty, and an upturned, red moustache, and the arrangement of his hair in a crest on his brow, proclaim the dandy in spite of his intense disreputableness. From Wordnik.com. [The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet] Reference
Firemen; also Chairman of the United Water-front Workmen, which last takes in everything doin 'business along the river except the wharf-rats and typhoid germs, and it's with the disreputableness of this party that I infected myself to the detriment of labour and the triumph of the law. From Wordnik.com. [Pardners] Reference
The idea of performing in men’s clothing may have come from non-Jewish female folk singers, such as the so-called “Fiaker-Milli,” who appeared in the 1870s in Vienna in jockey dress, which was considered the “pinnacle of disreputableness” at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Yiddish Theater in Vienna.] Reference
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