disreputation

American  

[dis-rep-yuh-tey-shuhn] / dɪsˌrɛp yəˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

Archaic.

1. disrepute.

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Etymology

Origin of disreputation

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

Example Sentences

What a standing disreputation to the choice of a gentleman!

From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel

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

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 Richardson, Samuel

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

From John Caldigate by Trollope, Anthony

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 Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess