disreputation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of disreputation
First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- 1 + reputation
Example Sentences
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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 Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
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 Dryden, John
For fear that their service was so abandoned and corrupt, that the display of the evil would tend more to their disreputation than all their attempts to reform it would tend to their service.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
With them there had been no period of Newmarket, Davis, and disreputation.
From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony
What a standing disreputation to the choice of a gentleman!
From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel
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