Example sentences for: disreputable

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

  • 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.

  • Historian Paul Johnson contends that Clinton is the "most disreputable president ever."

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

  • Critics cast Neuharth as the disreputable heir of William Randolph Hearst.

  • 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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