Definition of Disreputableness

1. Noun. Dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation.


Definition of Disreputableness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disreputableness

disrelish
disrelished
disrelishes
disrelishing
disrelisht
disremember
disremembered
disremembering
disremembers
disrepair
disrepairs
disreputabilities
disreputability
disreputable
disreputable person
disreputableness
disreputably
disreputation
disrepute
disreputes
disrespect
disrespectability
disrespectable
disrespected
disrespecter
disrespecters
disrespectful
disrespectfully
disrespectfulness
disrespecting

Literary usage of Disreputableness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks (1920)
"Huck's illiteracy, Huck's disreputableness and general outrageousness are so many shields behind which Mark Twain can let all the cats out ..."

2. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"... jogging along on horseback through the black mud, and leading strings of from two to ten ponies of all conceivable degrees of disreputableness ..."

3. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"Thus the Machine, fearing that its real candidate whom it has in its mind may be rejected by the electors on account of his disreputableness, puts forward ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"... are other considerations ; but in his sphere he would be instantly branded with the evil mark of dissipation and disreputableness, were he seen once in ..."

5. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"... and of divers other personages of varying degrees of disreputableness, are very entertaining, and recall similar figures of Middleton's. ..."

6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Disreputableness on the score of criminality. Evidence, the Delinquency Register : as to which see the penal code. 2. Preoccupation in public business : as ..."

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