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Antonyms for disreputable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dis-rep-yuh-tuh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈrɛp yə tə bəl



Definition of disreputable

Origin :
  • 1710 (implied in disreputableness); see dis- + reputable. Related: Disreputably.
  • adj dishonorable, lowly
Example sentences :
  • I mean the mounted and disreputable portion, not the decent infantry.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • They spoke of him as "he," and as leading a painfully worthless and disreputable life.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • I hope you don't think it is disreputable to belong to a good newspaper?'
  • Extract from : « A Woman Intervenes » by Robert Barr
  • You have to visit your disreputable cousin on the sly, have you?
  • Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
  • Its voice was not the trumpeting of the disreputable goddess we all know—not blatant—not brazen.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Kornerstrasse was not disreputable, but it certainly was not elegant.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • I have never heard of his doing anything wild or disreputable.
  • Extract from : « The Red Hand of Ulster » by George A. Birmingham
  • Now, though, in tilting her hat, the disreputable beauty of the land was forgotten.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • He would get to be as shabby and disreputable as a stray cat.
  • Extract from : « Mayflower (Flor de mayo) » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • She looked just as disreputable in every way as the Gypsy children themselves!
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson

Synonyms for disreputable

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