disreputableness

Example Sentences

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The girl swept De Launay with hard, disdainful eyes, and he knew that she was forming a concept of mademoiselle by comparison with his own general disreputableness.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by Winter, William West

It was much the same in disreputableness of aspect as when he left it.

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

His face was white and puffy, and about him there hung like a nimbus a sodden disreputableness.

From The Adventures of Sally by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

To be attached to our Administration is almost a stigma of disreputableness.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Is the daughter of a courtesy Baron who died—of general disreputableness, I believe—before his father—?

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)