Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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)