as in notorious
not respectable
a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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Recent Examples of disreputable
His solo debut Compassion gracefully straddles juvenilia and maturity: The music is dreamy, inventive, steeped in youthful obsessions and disreputable radio hits from the ’90s.
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Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
—David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Upon approval, my land lease community refused to cooperate, citing the disreputable program.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
They are believed to have consumed drinks tainted with methanol, which is sometimes used as the alcohol in mixed drinks at disreputable bars and can cause severe poisoning, sometimes leading to death.
—David Rising and Jintamas Saksornchai, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
Upon approval, my land lease community refused to cooperate, citing the disreputable program.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
The dynamic between Callum and tracker Jack O’Malley (Chris Evans), meanwhile, is your classic buddy-cop back-and-forth, with the gruff Callum slowly warming to the disreputable criminal he’s forced to partner up with when Santa gets kidnapped two days before Christmas.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disreputable
Adjective
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In Bucha, a Ukrainian suburb that was the site of a notorious massacre, residents worried that they had been abandoned.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Perkins did, however, take inspiration from one of the most notorious unsolved murder cases in history: the death of JonBenét Ramsey.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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Mansory, infamous modifier of cars, turns its attention to the Tesla Cybertruck.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s now infamous phone call with Vladimir Putin was still three days away, to say nothing of the diplomatic scramble that followed and is still playing out.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Though, with the man known as Kingpin, his political aspirations are likely just an extension of those shady dealings.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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What shady business is Timothy up to, and why was he so rattled by that phone call from the Wall Street Journal reporter asking questions about a former colleague in Brunei?—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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Some 18,500 people, or 44%, of those in ICE custody in mid-February had a criminal conviction or pending charges.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Nationwide, younger people are more likely to be arrested but California's aging population means fewer individuals in the age groups most associated with criminal activity.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Even though the Hamas charter directly calls for the murder of all Jews, all people must speak out against the immoral proposal to force an entire population into exile.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The Mann Act criminalizes transporting people across state lines for immoral purposes.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
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