disreputability

Example Sentences

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I thought about that overblown controversy a bit while watching “The Suicide Squad,” whose appeal is predicated on a similar kind of gleeful disreputability, a willingness to offend sensibilities without apology.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2021

The disreputability of the genre has to do with its slightly seedy showmanship, its carnival trappings.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

It also gives Blumhouse’s output a sheen that’s sometimes detrimental to the horror genre, where at least some grubbiness and disreputability is necessary, to make viewers uncomfortable.

From The Verge • Oct. 5, 2018

“A man who is irresponsible, inconsistent, an unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability should not be on the Fletcher Board,” Caballero wrote in the Tufts Daily. 

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2017

Peter, in his disreputability, felt like a man in the open air who looks into the prison of a sick-room.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame