disreputation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of disreputation
First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- 1 + reputation
Example Sentences
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What a standing disreputation to the choice of a gentleman!
From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel
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
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
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
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
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