disrepute

How to use disrepute in a sentence

• If the two parties could legislate more effectively, more proposals would pass into the judgment phase, and either rise in popularity as they worked to better people’s lives or fall into disrepute as they proved themselves to be failures.

  The definitive case for ending the filibuster | Ezra Klein | October 1, 2020 | Vox

• “His behaviour as a parliamentary candidate has brought the party into disrepute,” he said.

  British Candidate Receives Death Threats for Tweeting Prophet Mohammed Cartoon | The Telegraph | January 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• People just will not understand if his government waves this through at a time one arm of the Murdoch Empire is in such disrepute.

  David Cameron’s Credibility Problem | Alastair Campbell | July 8, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The Bush administration will leave the annals of presidential disrepute several times thicker than it found them.

  20 Forgotten Bush Scandals | The Daily Beast | January 6, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

  The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock