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Meanings of disreputable characters in English

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Usage of disreputable characters in English
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They were Indians, half-breeds, and disreputable characters of every shade and degree.
Reminiscences of a Pioneer
2
She keeps a permanently soft spot in her heart for disreputable characters-likeme.
The Vision of Desire
3
You must know some such disreputable characters.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
4
Even the disreputable characters will walk right in and stay all through the sermon-AndyRogers and the rest.
A Spinner in the Sun
5
Thieves and disreputable characters sometimes enter complaints against the men, with the hope of getting them into trouble.
The Secrets of the Great City / A Work Descriptive of the Virtue...
6
The most disreputable characters are seen in the audience, but no thieving or violence ever occurs within the hall.
Lights and Shadows of New York Life / or, the Sights and Sensati...
7
He frequented the gambling saloons, associated with disreputable characters, and was addicted to habits of the most disgusting intoxication.
Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sk...
8
Jesus mixed with disreputable characters.
The Guardian
9
I don't know now just what it was they did, but I know the goats were very-verydisreputable characters!
Prudence of the Parsonage
10
The most disreputable characters are to be seen in the audience, but no thieving or violence ever occurs within the hall.
The Secrets of the Great City / A Work Descriptive of the Virtue...
11
So the newspapers say; and this objection is that she does not wish her daughters to encounter disreputable characters at the polls.
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays
12
I had no inclination for work or study; but thought only of amusement, and spent my time among gamblers and disreputable characters.
Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes
13
The last-named was probably her favourite, since, as Forrester had remarked, she had a perennially soft spot in her heart for disreputable characters.
The Vision of Desire
14
There is some goodness in this pity, which authors and the public are disposed to show towards certain agreeable, disreputable characters of romance.
George Cruikshank
15
Very well; but why, then, should they care if they encounter those same disreputable characters when they go to drop a ballot in the ballot-box?
Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays
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