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The book is after all subtitled "The secret history of the American meritocracy," which arouses the suspicion that there is something disreputable that has been kept secret and will now be revealed.
creative `adjective, euphemistic going beyond conventional scope or legal limits .. This new meaning of creative, with its implication of imaginative rule-bending for possibly disreputable purposes, appears to have been coined in the field of accountancy .. , but has since widened its area of application considerably.
I would have liked to meet Benford; but I couldn't stand to watch the author of Great Sky River demeaning himself by consorting with such disreputable company.
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).
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.