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- noun A
poor ordamaged reputation .
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Examples
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I think probably some guy, smarter than you, (which includes ninety five percent of the population), left you to fend for yourself in a barroom brawl in Leesville, or a house of ill-repute in Phenix City, which your loud mouth got you into, to start with.
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So, before you chastise me with little comments of ill-repute.
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Hannibal simply drew me toward his story, and I assumed telling it would require a sometimes uncomfortable partnership with a man of considerable ill-repute.
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I think probably some guy, smarter than you, (which includes ninety five percent of the population), left you to fend for yourself in a barroom brawl in Leesville, or a house of ill-repute in Phenix City, which your loud mouth got you into, to start with.
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Spitzer prosecuted political opponents for frequenting houses of ill-repute.
Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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They are a bunch of lying, cheating, ill-repute backdoor scoundrels (who now want to blackmail the Democratic party for her selfish brand of anything for political gain) and their so called "she's tough stance" means that they are reflections of who she is and what she does.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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The first of these is that the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are actually hearings, as opposed to, say, clumsy choreography by men of ill-repute clad in ill-fitting suits.
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Senta Pundov was born in Fürth, a small town near Nuremberg in Germany, a city of ill-repute because it was the center of the Nazi movement and the site of its meetings.
Senta Josephthal. 2009
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One claimed a program in Mexico was shut down because the police thought it was a 'house of ill-repute'.
Maia Szalavitz: What We Lost When We Lost Rocky -- Paper First Exposed Teen Torture 2009
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It also provided me with a window into the Canadian health system, that bloated bureaucracy of ill-repute, which for some bizarre reason provided my father-in-law with an implanted defibrillator and solid, timely medical care during his final years.
Valerie Tarico: Canadian Health Care: Five "Terrifying" Testimonials 2009
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