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Definition of Disreputableness
1. Noun. Dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation.
Generic synonyms: Dishonorableness, Dishonourableness
Derivative terms: Disreputable, Disreputable, Unrespectable
Antonyms: Reputability, Respectability
Definition of Disreputableness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disreputableness
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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