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Definition of Disreputable person
1. Noun. Someone lacking public esteem.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disreputable Person
Literary usage of Disreputable person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practice of the Law of Evidence by Edmund Powell (1856)
"... after making the promise with the knowledge that the plaintiff was a disreputable
person, he was induced to break it on the representation and advice of ..."
2. Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (from the 16th to the 20th Century) by Edmund Backhouse, John Otway Percy Bland (1914)
"There is no doubt at all that these wicked minions shortened my father's life by
their misdeeds, and for this ' That disreputable person ' and his brothers ..."
3. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1882)
"I was more interested in the disreputable person who mounted the box beside our
driver directly we got out of our city gate," p. 218. ..."
4. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1871)
"I was more interested in the disreputable person who mounted the box beside our
driver directly we got out of our city gate," p. 218. ..."
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