Disreputable definition

dĭs-rĕpyə-tə-bəl
The definition of disreputable is lacking respectability or shabby.

A hotel known for allowing criminal activity to go on in its rooms is an example of a disreputable hotel.

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Lacking respectability, as in character, behavior, or appearance.
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Not reputable; having or causing a bad reputation; discreditable.
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Not fit to be seen; dirty, shabby, etc.
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A person who is not reputable.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
disreputable
Plural:
disreputables

Disreputable Sentence Examples

  • Parkside was nothing more than an innocent battleground for disreputable elements of our society, at war with one another.

  • When James came to the throne the term suburbs had a bad name, as all those disreputable persons who could find no shelter in the city itself settled in these outlying districts.

  • The class of traders who made a living by disreputable means and attempted to keep a monopoly of the island on which they settled, became notorious under the name of " beachcombers," and for each of the many dark chapters in Polynesian history there must have been many more unwritten.

  • At one time a well-known theatre, it had degenerated into a disreputable haunt where nothing but the lowest melodramas were played.

  • The result was to render such ideas academically and intellectually disreputable.

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