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a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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But Bertha can’t allow her daughter to run blindly into a disreputable match, knowing full well what will happen to a woman whose fantasy wedding ends in the cold reality of divorce.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
The characters in Thunderbolts* (asterisk theirs) are all minor foes and disreputable allies who’ve turned up over the last few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Even in an industry with a disreputable history, the deals raised alarm among veteran executives.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Of course being an Agatha Christie yarn set in England 1936, that disreputable unfinished business between the former sweethearts is followed by a violent death.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025
The characters in Thunderbolts* (asterisk theirs) are all minor foes and disreputable allies who’ve turned up over the last few years of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2025
Even in an industry with a disreputable history, the deals raised alarm among veteran executives.
—Eric Lipton, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Of course being an Agatha Christie yarn set in England 1936, that disreputable unfinished business between the former sweethearts is followed by a violent death.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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disreputable
adjective
dis·rep·u·ta·ble
(ˈ)dis-ˈrep-yət-ə-bəl 
: not respectable : having a bad reputation
disreputableness
noun
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