disreputableness
Example Sentences
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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 Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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 R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
His face was white and puffy, and about him there hung like a nimbus a sodden disreputableness.
From The Adventures of Sally by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Is the daughter of a courtesy Baron who died—of general disreputableness, I believe—before his father—?
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 William West Winter
