| ADJ | disreputable | more disreputable | most disreputable |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- PSACC once had passenger RoRo (Roll on - Roll off) vessels. However, because of their disreputable public image after a series of ferry disasters, PSACC had to focus solely on cargo shipping.
- The Society for Scientific Exploration, or SSE, is a group committed to studying fringe science. Critics argue that the SSE is devoted to disreputable ideas far outside the scientific mainstream.
- Baggy, and Fat Paul — disreputable friends of Eddie Grundy. Snatch Foster was formerly also a friend of Eddie Grundy, but ended up in prison for selling condemned meat to him.
- Black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family.
- She is an inn-keeper, who runs the Boar's Head Tavern, at which Sir John Falstaff and his disreputable cronies congregate.
- Aristidean saucy and disreputable heroes and spicy, fast-paced anecdote resurfaced in the medieval "fabliaux". Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale" is in Aristides' tradition.
- Tib Mumps was the disreputable landlady of the inn where an important meeting takes place between Meg Merrilies and Bertram.
- The etymology of the word is not generally agreed upon. The "Oxford English Dictionary" describes it as "of obscure origin", possibly deriving from a historical sense of "shy" meaning disreputable.
- Because grindhouse theaters were associated with a lower class audience, grindhouse theaters gradually became perceived as disreputable places that showed disreputable films, regardless of the variety of films – including subsequent-run Hollywood films – that were actually screened.
- Tonty was involved in numerous scandals and disreputable activities before he was eventually dismissed from his post as commandant of Fort Pontchartrain.
- As a mayor, he was prominent for the drainage and water supply commission and being appointed to suppress gambling in saloons as well as closing disreputable ones.
- In the aftermath, Hilo asks his brother for permission to marry his girlfriend Wen, and Lan, despite misgivings about his brother marrying a stone-eye from a disreputable family, gives his permission.
- The philosopher Martin Mahner proposed calling these academic fields the "parasciences", to distinguish them from disreputable forms of non-science, such as pseudoscience.
- New Orleans, 1865: In a disreputable saloon, the Scarlet Angel, sea captain Frank Truscott observes as scheming, gold-digging saloon girl Roxy McClanahan steals one customer's wallet and then sets her sights on him.
- At these salons, Western women attacked the "niqab" when "Egyptian women could camouflage disreputable deeds behind a mask but, because the actions of European women were visible, their behavior was better".
- Swashbucklers are not unrepentant brigands or pirates, although some may rise from such disreputable stations and achieve redemption.
- In ancient times, the "rione" was densely populated; Monti was home to the Forum Romanum and the so-called "Suburra," where poor people lived, full of disreputable locals and brothels.
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