Example sentences for: disreputable

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

  • Democrats note that the Republican Party has had plenty of contacts with disreputable unions . Ronald Reagan gladly took endorsements from the Longshoremen and the Teamsters, two unions that were the targets of FBI racketeering probes at the time.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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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