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.

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

  • If Isikoff was such a disreputable sleazemonger, why would Toobin want to write a book with him?

  • 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.

  • Floyd Elliot's News Quiz responses are for sale to reputable or disreputable advertisers.


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