Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a disreputable manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a disreputable manner.
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- adverb In a
disreputable manner
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- adverb in a disreputable manner
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Examples
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He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.
Chapter 25 2010
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By contrast, there are thousands of judges and prosecutors actively engaged in the corrections business, some disreputably.
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By contrast, there are thousands of judges and prosecutors actively engaged in the corrections business, some disreputably.
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He had refused to comb his hair, on grounds that even his scalp was sore, and he looked a wild and woolly sight, red spikes sticking up above a swollen purple face with one eye squeezed disreputably shut.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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By contrast, there are thousands of judges and prosecutors actively engaged in the corrections business, some disreputably.
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But don't blame lobbyists or corporations who look after their own interests no more keenly or disreputably than parents guard the interests of their own children.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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But don't blame lobbyists or corporations who look after their own interests no more keenly or disreputably than parents guard the interests of their own children.
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And hey: if you say they're acting disreputably/unethically, why don't you say something to them?
It’s a Small World After All Editorial Anonymous 2008
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This antipathy breaks neatly along class lines, as the stable cultural properties of books and painting in the nineteenth century became more and more identified with middle-class aspiration and identity, and the ephemeral opera with an atavistic, marginalized and disreputably
Introduction 2005
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Some are child prodigies, and others late bloomers; some peak early and others late; some seem over the hill at a disreputably youthful age, whereas others seem to save their magnum opus for the swan song of their life and career…
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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