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Recent Examples of disreputable 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 But how did novels like Liu’s overcome the disreputable status of pulp fiction and gain an international reputation as serious literature? H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 Nov. 2024 Somewhere along the way, this gruesome celluloid artifact was elevated from being the sick and disreputable product of a gutter genre to being a high-art masterpiece (Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott all owned 35mm prints of the film). Chris Nashawaty, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024 Until recently, most Israeli Jews viewed such bigoted positions as disreputable. Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for disreputable 
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Adjective
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    Avery Lotz, Axios, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The city is notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability, said Parrish, the Miami developer who lives in the Grove.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • While the domestic violence incident in 2009 involving then-girlfriend Rihanna remains the most infamous of Brown's legal troubles, he has been charged with a number of accusations over the years.
    Alex Heigl, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Benson Boone’s Australian tour reached a memorable peak on Jan. 20 when the 22-year-old pop sensation embraced one of the country’s most infamous traditions: the shoey.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Doe is strictly instructed by Muna not to answer her phone, while arrangements to meet a stranger on the other side to continue their journey sound shady enough even before the man fails to show up.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
  • One side of the resort might be shady and firm, the other side might be in the sun and soft!
    Gillian Telling, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Homan's comments to Fox News follow a report in The Wall Street Journal in which unnamed sources said that there would be a large-scale raid in Chicago targeting those with criminal backgrounds the day after Donald Trump's inauguration.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Spencer, who lives in East Harlem, is charged with murder, criminal weapons possession and criminal use of a firearm, according to police.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The trial culminated in the dramatic display of her thong before the jury, paired with descriptions of her as manipulative and immoral.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.
    NBC News, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024

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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disreputable. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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