One would think that in order to prove a certain revolutionary movement powerless and contemptible, you had only to show that its leaders were themselves contemptible and disreputable persons.
They had been lived in before, and left in a ragged and disreputable condition.
My idea is to collect together all the most disreputable and notorious evil-doers of this city .
I was on the spot--as disreputable a bar-loafer as you ever saw in your life.
They are a fairly disreputable couple by this time because we are beginning to know how much morbidity they represent.
It only shows how perilous, in public as in private life, is any deviation from the path of integrity, that it impelled such a man into so tortuous and disreputable a path.
He looked disreputable to the last degree, but still had a ruined air of good society glimmering about him, like a few specks of polish on a sword-blade that has lain corroding in a mud-puddle.
The disreputablelover has his say in Browning's monologues no less than Count Gismond.
It is amusing to reflect as one looks round the disreputablecompany of Mr. Kipling's characters, that his work has now been given a place in the library of law and order.
He is more sympathetic towards the disreputable suicides in Apparent Failure than towards the vacillating and respectable lovers in The Statue and the Bust.
The walls are full of inscriptions concerning them; the bathing establishments, the inns, and the disreputable haunts, transmit their names to posterity.
It made her feel a strange, different person, rather disreputable and quite unlike herself.
There was to him something inherently disreputable about the horizontal.
She is simply a disreputable young woman, who has been run out of her own town, as she ought to be run out of this, as an impostor, if nothing else.
There is but one," he said, and at this the Chapel door was thrown open and a priest of extremely disreputable exterior appeared on the threshold, with the lighted altar as his background.
I refuse to take advantage of any information obtained in such a disreputable manner--I insist on your leaving this room at once without another word!
The Rougons, those poor disreputable devils, had thus succeeded in rallying round themselves the instruments of their own fortune.
He sometimes looked at her stealthily, with the timid surprise of a schoolboy in the presence of a disreputable character.
On the evening of the same day he was sitting in some disreputable tavern of the old quarter with a few friends, when a comrade came to inform him that the insurgents were only a few miles from Plassans.
Our family is a disreputable lot; it's sad but true.
And whilst he was mentally cursing his disreputable family, he solemnly declared that if the guilty person were found he should be punished with all the rigour of the law.
Felicite could not refrain from reproaching her husband with his disreputable family; for the husband and wife never for a moment doubted that this letter was Antoine's work.
She was soon to become a mother; the love that she had sedately allowed to go out to her disreputable and pretentious husband, and which she had early withdrawn in tatters, she now lavished upon this, her girl-child.
As for that uninteresting and disreputable end, official nineteenth-century art, it can be studied in a hundred public galleries and in annual exhibitions all over the world.
Could it be possible that this disreputable object was the man whom she had once loved as her husband?
That is to say, he knew that a certain king named Charles the First had been beheaded a good many years ago, and that a disreputable personage named Oliver Cromwell had somehow been mixed up in the transaction.
In her stay in the South she had seen a very disreputable class of negroes, and under the spell of Rutledge's words her antipathies were over-excited to such a degree that she was faint with disgust.
At the Spartanburg meeting day before yesterday, in answer to the question of a disreputable dog, I said that I had neither the honour nor the hope to be engaged to the eldest daughter of the late President Phillips.
I saw him at the Hague, where I first had the honour of meeting you, and a more disreputable rogue never entered my doors.
The next that he rootled at the bottom of a deep drawer and extracted a most disreputable tweed suit.
We must not demand from the seventh or eighth century our ideals of exclusive enthusiasm for the land of one's birth, ideals which make it disreputable for a "mercenary" to sell his sword.
But not only does untidiness waste time, and render the person who falls into it a disreputable member of society, but it seriously endangers his success in life.
The man was the disreputable son of a rich and hard-working father who, in the usual way, had damned his son by removing all incentives to work, and turning him loose with a pile of money.
A cheap coat and skirt, much worn, a hat of no particular color or shape, frayed gloves and disreputable boots, proclaimed both the parsimony of her father's will and the independence of her opinions.
Measuring her services with those of the disreputable Mr. Gorst, it seemed to her that she was amply making up.
In with the Ransomes and all that disreputable set.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disreputable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
