disreputation

American  

[dis-rep-yuh-tay-shuhn] / dɪsˌrɛp jəˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

Archaic.

1. disrepute.

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Etymology

Origin of disreputation

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- ¹ + reputation

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Example Sentences

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disreputation

And is not that the period in which our conduct or misconduct gives us a reputation or disreputation, that almost inseparably accompanies us throughout our whole future lives?

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

Or rather, what disreputation is it to Horace that Juvenal excels in the tragical satire, as Horace does in the comical?

From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden

With them there had been no period of Newmarket, Davis, and disreputation.

From John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

Without this, he will incur their contempt, and bring disreputation on the institution.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

Her greatness held it no disreputation To hold the needle in her royal hand, Which was a good example to our nation To banish idleness throughout the land.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

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