disreputableness

Example Sentences

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His face was white and puffy, and about him there hung like a nimbus a sodden disreputableness.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Now her disreputableness contrasted strongly with his correct black coat and general air of civilized well-being.

From Gone to Earth by Webb, Mary Gladys Meredith

It was much the same in disreputableness of aspect as when he left it.

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

The girl swept De Launay with hard, disdainful eyes, and he knew that she was forming a concept of mademoiselle by comparison with his own general disreputableness.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West

He evidently recognised them as a sort of scurvy spirits, good to be slighted, because of their disreputableness.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir