Example sentences for: disreputable

How can you use “disreputable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For those words of doubtful origin (like dive `disreputable bar,' jingo, rag `taunt,' toy , etc.), Ayto presents the current wisdom, where available, and lets the user decide for himself from among the theories proffered.

  • But until you've done some kind of analysis, quoting a number such as "10" is both dishonest and disreputable.

  • Brady made his way to New York City, and by 1843, five years after Daguerre announced his new invention, he was already active in the slightly disreputable trade of photography, manufacturing the leather and metal cases for holding daguerreotypes.

  • The Serbo-Croatians, for instance, picked up the English word nylon , but took it to mean a kind of shabby and disreputable variation, so that a nylon hotel is a `brothel' while a nylon beach is where nudists frolic.

  • The piece bore the title The Lady's Not for Spurning, with the reasonably obvious meaning The subject of this painting is not to be spurned as a disreputable whore (but enjoyed as a sensitive portrayal).


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