Thesaurus / disrepute
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
If the two parties could legislate more effectively, more proposals would pass into the judgment phase, and either rise in popularity as they worked to better people’s lives or fall into disrepute as they proved themselves to be failures.
THE DEFINITIVE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTEREZRA KLEINOCTOBER 1, 2020VOX
Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
Monomania as a defense for crime has brought expert evidence into great disrepute.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEY
He kept to the same ignoble counsel that had so wrought disrepute for Mr. Croker.
Goodness is proper to the aged; it is their sole glory; why should this milky stripling bring it into disrepute?
THE FIEND'S DELIGHTDOD GRILE
Still the ill success of popular government in Germany brought the Parliament into lasting disrepute.
A HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, YEAR BY YEAREDWIN EMERSON
Hotten was in general disrepute, therefore, so it was not worth while throwing a second brick at him.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
That winter in Washington had acquainted Clemens with the life there, its political intrigues, and the disrepute of Congress.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
It not only brings the law into contempt, but itself into such disrepute that its findings are worthless.
It stood in what is known as Walsh's Row—was fashionable enough once, perhaps, but long since fallen into disrepute.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
WORDS RELATED TO DISREPUTE
- abasement
- abuse
- bad name
- bad odor
- baseness
- black eye
- blemish
- blur
- brand
- comedown
- contempt
- contumely
- corruption
- culpability
- debasement
- debasing
- defamation
- degradation
- derision
- disbarment
- discredit
- disesteem
- disfavor
- dishonor
- disrepute
- disrespect
- humbling
- humiliation
- ignominy
- infamy
- ingloriousness
- meanness
- obloquy
- odium
- opprobrium
- pollution
- prostitution
- put-down
- reproach
- scandal
- scorn
- shame
- slander
- slight
- slur
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- taint
- tarnish
- turpitude
- venality
- abjection
- avarice
- baseness
- beastliness
- churlishness
- closeness
- contemptibleness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- debasement
- degeneracy
- degradation
- disrepute
- frugality
- greed
- ill-temper
- infamy
- iniquity
- knavishness
- lowness
- malice
- malignity
- miserliness
- parsimony
- pettiness
- rapacity
- shamelessness
- smallmindedness
- sordidness
- stinginess
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- wickedness
- abhorrence
- antipathy
- aversion
- bar sinister
- black eye
- blame
- blot
- blur
- brand
- censure
- condemnation
- detestation
- disapproval
- discredit
- disesteem
- disfavor
- disgrace
- dislike
- dispprobation
- disrepute
- enmity
- execration
- hate
- hatred
- ignominy
- infamy
- malice
- obloquy
- onus
- opprobrium
- rebuke
- reprobation
- resentment
- slur
- spot
- stain
- stigma
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