disreputably
Example Sentences
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He said some towns and cities have codes of conduct that allow employees to be fired if they act disreputably, but Charlottesville does not.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
The youngest sister, Taeko, is modern, disreputably impatient for her turn to marry, and without any feeling for the Makioka past.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
"Audiences, when you have a protagonist that behaves this disreputably, you want to see them pay the price for that. "But what happened in reality?
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2014
As it is, those areas of the press that have behaved disreputably and despicably have been so shamed by the evidence given to the inquiry that such behaviour should not recur.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2013
Their limbs are becoming contracted from sheer idleness; while all the other men are well and getting stronger they alone are disreputably slovenly and useless-looking.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Waller, Horace
