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Example sentences for: disreputable
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Historian Paul Johnson contends that Clinton is the "most disreputable president ever."
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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.
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.
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.
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