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Meanings of disreputable in English

Portuguese
mal afamado

Lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance.

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        Usage of disreputable in English
        1
        As far as Silk knew he'd never seen the disreputable fellow before.
        Dancer’s Lament
        2
        The entire concept, for that matter, is pretty disreputable at the moment.
        A Stir of Echoes
        3
        What future would there be, except as a disreputable offshore tax haven?
        The Guardian
        4
        As they go back, the pastor offers him a disreputable easy chair.
        The new yorker
        5
        They frequent the gambling-tables, and live with the most disreputable French Viscounts.
        The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
        6
        Together we have been into the most disreputable parts of the city.
        For the love of mike
        7
        Her clothes are torn, and she is found rioting in disreputable company.
        Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
        8
        The date of this transaction is disreputable to the people of Salem.
        Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II / With an Account of Salem Vi...
        9
        With a contemptuous glance at the disreputable-looking young trooper, the man answered:
        "Forward, March": A Tale of the Spanish-American War
        10
        Mountjoy has become disreputable, and had better be out of the way.
        Mr. Scarborough's Family
        11
        I stand well with the National Assembly, except a few disreputable Jacobins.
        Memoirs of General Lafayette / With an Account of His Visit to A...
        12
        These are aggressive, disreputable-looking creatures which go about in disorderly, rowdy gangs.
        Birds of the Indian Hills
        13
        Upon closer examination Kamir did not look so menacing or so disreputable.
        A river in the sky
        14
        But they were not disreputable, they knew where to draw the line.
        Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life
        15
        The disreputable, swollen-faced lodger with a nose like a poisoned toadstool vanished.
        O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
        16
        Two battered and paintless motor-scows remained, and one or two disreputable rowboats.
        Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
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        Translations for disreputable
        Portuguese
        mal afamado
        Disreputable through the time
        Disreputable across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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        United States of America
        Less common