Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being disreputable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being disreputable.
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- noun The state of being
disreputable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation
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Examples
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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.
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Um, Dilan is trying to imply that Hayek is akin to Larmarck and Ptolemy in disreputability/quackitude.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010
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Um, Dilan is trying to imply that Hayek is akin to Larmarck and Ptolemy in disreputability/quackitude.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010
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Um, Dilan is trying to imply that Hayek is akin to Larmarck and Ptolemy in disreputability/quackitude.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010
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Um, Dilan is trying to imply that Hayek is akin to Larmarck and Ptolemy in disreputability/quackitude.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Hayek Belong in High School Economics Classes? 2010
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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.
Waiting for the South Carolina results. Ann Althouse 2008
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Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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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.
The Murdoch Touch 2005
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Mother Teresa, as peace Nobelist, 50; disreputability of, 89
Who's Who 2005
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