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Meanings of less reputable in English

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Usage of less reputable in English
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Ambition, the mother of steadfast industry and heroic effort, has also a less reputable progeny.
Vane of the Timberlands
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And what, he wondered, did this boy's mother do-washingor sewing or something less reputable?
What alice knew: a most curious tale of henry james & jack the r...
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But more recently, it's served less reputable purposes.
Wired
4
So much less reputable, so much more fraught.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
5
Some that were reputable, and some that were less reputable, but vastly more profitable, like smuggling.
Destined to last
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Others were employed for less reputable purposes.
The Big-Town Round-Up
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Lord Herbert of Cherbury and Margaret Duchess of Newcastle, as well as less reputable persons, followed the new mode.
English Literature: Modern
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The recipient was Lieutenant Frank Shackleton, brother of the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, but a somewhat less reputable character.
The Irish Times
9
That area of the spaceport was given over to shipments to and from the smaller and less reputable freighters in orbit.
Torch of Freedom
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They were burly young men, both of them, the kind you'd expect to see hanging around some less reputable type of tavern.
The last illusion
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Her daughter Sylvia was then eighteen, and had inherited with the grace of her mother the beauty of her less reputable parent.
Endymion
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While searching for Bill, I met some of the state's less reputable citizens at the supernatural hangout in Jackson, called Club Dead.
Dead to the world
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The cat is less reputable than the other two just named, because she is less wasteful; she may even serve a useful end.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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