as in notorious
not respectable
the discreditable conduct of drunken college students celebrating a win by their team
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During an April 2024 interview with The Sun, John revealed that he was diagnosed with toxic peripheral polyneuropathy, a condition linked to his time at Camp Lejeune, a notorious military base in North Carolina, where the water was severely contaminated in the 1980s.
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Morey was fired in May after Philadelphia failed to get past the second round of the playoffs, extending the franchise's notorious Eastern Conference Finals drought.
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The Balboa Peninsula, which Stapleton represents on the council, has historically been an infamous hot spot for public drinking, disruptive parties and brawls throughout the summer and especially during the Fourth of July.
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The infamous Cristiano Ronaldo bust leads the list of sports statutes that have received less-than-flattering reviews.
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The weather service also cautions the heat index is calculated for shady areas only.
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That makes these networks valuable for people trying to hide mass scraping, fake ad clicks, account attacks or other shady activity.
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Guo was convicted of nine of 12 criminal charges during a seven-week trial that prosecutors said showcased his deception of thousands of investors in bogus deals that enabled Guo’s lavish lifestyle.
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In May 2025, a Placer County criminal grand jury indicted both men.
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Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.
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These monsters—its antitheses—constitute that part of our nature that urges us to be sensible and strong, and that inclines us to see the life drive as trivial, weak, sentimental and immoral.
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What is truly disgraceful is leveraging your skin color to remain employed while insisting that white privilege is responsible for your own shortcomings.
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Maradona was subject to disgraceful physical treatment and still won the match, well, single-handedly.
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Risk wasn’t shameful and failure wasn’t final here.
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Cleft palates appear not to have been treated as shameful under the Qing dynasty.
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After the laughter ringing through the room subsides, though, Abela does allow for a moment of reverence — for the HBO drama if not for the disreputable people who populate it.
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The cultural shift that turned horror cinema from a disreputable, rarely respected grind-house film genre into a billion-dollar-a-year mainstream business has done wonders for the genre’s overall quality.
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“Discreditable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discreditable. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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