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TOEFL BNC: 20112 COCA: 23539

disreputable

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disreputable /dɪsˈrɛpjətəbəl/ adjective
disreputable
/dɪsˈrɛpjətəbəl/
adjective
Learner's definition of DISREPUTABLE
[more disreputable; most disreputable] formal
: not respected or trusted by most people : having a bad reputation不受尊敬或信任的;声名狼藉的
opposite reputable
TOEFL BNC: 20112 COCA: 23539

disreputable

adjective

dis·​rep·​u·​ta·​ble (ˌ)dis-ˈre-pyə-tə-bəl How to pronounce disreputable (audio)
: not reputable
disreputableness noun
disreputably adverb

Example Sentences

a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
Recent Examples on the Web Charles has shown no indication of being willing to readmit his disreputable younger brother to the family lineup. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2022 What’s more, the only non-Civil War use of Section 3 was entirely disreputable. Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 July 2022 O’Toole is on the board of the Charles Martel Society, which publishes a racist pseudo-academic journal with articles questioning the Holocaust and promoting disreputable theories about the genetic intelligence of Black people. al, 1 May 2022 The business of democracy once again seemed toxic, sludgy, and disreputable. Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Mar. 2022 These barriers did not exist for the Jewish studio founders in the emerging film industry at the time, in part because the industry was considered by some as disreputable. Jonathan Greenblatt, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2022 What’s most apt about Bullough’s butler analogy is the appearance of gray-flannel propriety, which can impart an aura of respectability to even the most disreputable fortune. Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022 But despite the faintly disreputable aura that clings to dream research, the phenomenon is inescapable for scientists seeking to understand the mind. Michael W. Clune, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022 Energy Prices President Biden has written a ham-handed and transparently politically letter to the Federal Trade Commission, attempting to shift blame for rising energy prices to the disreputable Big Oil cabal. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1726, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of disreputable was circa 1726
TOEFL BNC: 20112 COCA: 23539
disreputable

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB VERBSbe, look, seem聲名狼藉;看上去不光彩;似乎名聲不好ADVERBthoroughly, very聲名狼藉;名聲很壞rather, slightly, vaguely相當不光彩;有點兒不體面He had a vaguely disreputable appearance.他看上去有些不那麼體面。intellectually理智上而言不體面This approach remains intellectually disreputable even now.即使現在這種做法理智一點兒說也是不光彩的。

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