disreputable

Modifies a noun

• landlord: Registration will help local authorities to remove disreputable landlords from the market.
• character: He was a most disreputable character, a disgrace to our family!
• friend: Encouraged by his disreputable friend, Charles Augustus Howell, the painter had Lizzie's body exhumed to recover his poems.
• practice: Gadbury's first step was to distance himself from the disreputable practices of the populist astrologers.
• company: Many disreputable companies charge high monthly fees - which lead to even greater debt.
• way: I think that is a disreputable way to undertake an election.

Modifying Another Word

• so: Carlton's half of the story was that he did not accept Mark Twain's book because the author looked so disreputable.
• intellectually: The result was to render such ideas academically and intellectually disreputable.
• thoroughly: One can be jailed for bringing the president into disrepute in any way, even tho his behavior may be thoroughly disreputable.
• somewhat: He then instructed the Sheikh's servant to bring in his own, somewhat disreputable, camel.
• faintly: A stigma attaches itself still to bookmaking, and for many people bookmakers remain a faintly disreputable and slightly shady lot.
• mildly: BATH FRINGE -- The posh Bath Festival's mildly disreputable younger sibling brings its own brand of mayhem to the Georgian city.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Carlton's half of the story was that he did not accept Mark Twain's book because the author looked so disreputable.