Meanings of unsavoury reputation in English

Brant was fast gaining an unsavoury reputation which he but partly merited.

THE equinoxes, over the centuries, have acquired an unsavoury reputation for violent storms.

The equinoxes, over the centuries, have acquired an unsavoury reputation for very violent storms.

First to an impecunious baron with an unsavoury reputation, and then to a mere 'mister.'

It is a place with a very unsavoury reputation.

This gives the city an unsavoury reputation as the "rape capital".

Meantime "Jack the Ripper" was also giving our residential section a most unsavoury reputation.

I believe the firm has a rather unsavoury reputation; they have to be watched, I am told.

Hence the unsavoury reputation of the place.

Moreover, he was accompanied by several men whom he recognised as Graustark mountaineers and hunters of rather unsavoury reputation.

This moral blindness bestowed upon him a small team of loyal acolytes, but had also earned him an unsavoury reputation.

When a deadly cyclone struck neighbouring Myanmar the same month, its military's slow response and obstruction of foreign aid sealed its unsavoury reputation.

The men were furious at having been tricked into behaving politely to this insignificant fellow with the unsavoury reputation and the heretical opinions.

Mr. Frickie Eloff is President Kruger's son-in-law and enjoys the unsavoury reputation of being interested in every swindle which is worth being in the Transvaal.