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 Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

To be attached to our Administration is almost a stigma of disreputableness.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

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)

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)

Is the daughter of a courtesy Baron who died—of general disreputableness, I believe—before his father—?

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)