Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Damage to or loss of reputation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor.
- noun Synonyms III repute, low esteem, disrespect.
- To bring into discredit or disgrace.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
- noun Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Loss or want of
reputation ; ill character;disesteem ;discredit . - verb To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being held in low esteem
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only disrepute is through toadying management trying their utmost to pretend all is fine and dandy in the ranks, and present to ‘the public’ a false and toothy-grinned image of their local utopia.
Blogging in Tehran (good) Blogging in Lancashire (bad) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Pei writes, the potato, for its part, was in disrepute some centuries ago.
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Community as the basis for Movement-making is in disrepute, replaced by mailings, marketing and polling, Twitter and Facebook.
Reverend Billy: Notes for Sunday's Sermon Reverend Billy 2010
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Some of the disrepute is deserved and some is artificially induced.
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I suppose you’re right about that – I don’t approve of the job he’s doing – but I suspect your reasons for holding him in disrepute are lots different from mine.
Waldo Jaquith - Norquist on the Bush cult of personality. 2007
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I am seriously worried that the whole thing is going to bring the whole of politics into disrepute, meaning that people will start "fending" for themselves and largely ignoring rules and regs.
We Don't Need Another Hero Praguetory 2007
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At a later period, with the increased religious veneration for all kinds of life, agriculture apparently fell into some kind of disrepute as involving the sacrifice of insect life, and there was
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Jon Burge, speaking at his sentencing hearing today, apologized for bringing "disrepute" on the department but remained unrepentant about the torture allegations against him.
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Jon Burge, speaking at his sentencing hearing today, apologized for bringing "disrepute" on the department but remained unrepentant about the torture allegations against him.
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Jon Burge, speaking at his sentencing hearing today, apologized for bringing "disrepute" on the department but remained unrepentant about the torture allegations against him.
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