disreputability

I thought about that overblown controversy a bit while watching “The Suicide Squad,” whose appeal is predicated on a similar kind of gleeful disreputability, a willingness to offend sensibilities without apology.

The disreputability of the genre has to do with its slightly seedy showmanship, its carnival trappings.

It also gives Blumhouse’s output a sheen that’s sometimes detrimental to the horror genre, where at least some grubbiness and disreputability is necessary, to make viewers uncomfortable.

Mulder has always been the black sheep of an otherwise highly respected organization, with his paranormal investigations defined by their disreputability and lack of official sanction.

“A man who is irresponsible, inconsistent, an unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability should not be on the Fletcher Board,” Caballero wrote in the Tufts Daily.