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disreputable
1. disreputable companions, Tom considered; it was almost as if they
2. Known in the past as a disreputable
3. And with the broken seats and caved in grill he looked old and disreputable
4. Dehahuit had proved to be valuable to my disreputable cousin, the current Khan of the Clouds, and had been sent along to make sure Henry didn’t make any mistakes
5. It is my opinion that the proper label for this cadre of Democrats is SOCIALIST, but certain descriptive adjectives should be added for quantitative emphasis such as: shameful, hateful, disgusting, reprehensible, disreputable, and indefensible
6. “My Lord,” he stuttered as his usually peaceful office was suddenly full of very filthy and disreputable looking men
7. Wheeling, the giants saw a disreputable throng crowding the arch
8. In fact, most of the time she wore what had once been an exercise outfit and was now pretty disreputable
9. Terence was an amorous, arrogant blackmailer, the most vile and disreputable scallywag in their societies, who seemed to be unjustly accused of infidelity by his obsessive wife who tormented him enough mentally and emotionally to perhaps drive him to murder
10. ” He saw the frank look of acceptance in the attorney’s eyes as if having expected as much from the disreputable character and added, “I’ve confirmed at least one of those
11. There were many disreputable
12. Jacques did eventually manage to introduce Linda to the rest of his friends and managed also to endure all of the disreputable things that they said about him
13. This was Miyr Kopan, a particularly disreputable part of the Avis district, named after the man whose likeness stood in the center, a powerful Cleric from the early days of the city named Toah Miyr
14. Newsweek, for example said that many of the disreputable
15. Elon called out hearty hellos in Italian to the extremely disreputable denizens of the place, who heartily responded in kind
16. Something especially reckless in his demeanour, not only gave him a disreputable look, but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to the prisoner (which his momentary earnestness, when they were compared together, had strengthened), that many of the lookers-on, taking note of him now, said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike
17. They are, in short, peasants, plain homely people, without any taint of disreputable blood, and, as the saying is, old rusty Christians, but so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life they are coming by degrees to be considered gentlefolk by birth, and even by position; though the wealth and nobility they thought most of was having me for their daughter; and as they have no other child to make their heir, and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most indulged daughters that ever parents indulged
18. His clothes were old and rather disreputable, and he walked with considerable pride
19. All her life, she had been looked down upon as the daughter of the disreputable Joby; and the women had disapproved of her even more when they realized she wanted to snatch Wulfric away from Annet
20. The buccaneer on the wave might relinquish his calling, and become at once, if he chose, a man of probity and piety on land; nor, even in the full career of his reckless life, was he regarded as a personage with whom it was disreputable to traffic, or casually associate
21. At the bottom of the main street, where the old bridge had stood, there was a disreputable tavern called the White Horse
22. Sam’s grandfather, the disreputable Joby, was present, a white-haired old man now, bent and toothless
23. the arm and pulled her away from her disreputable friends outside the White Horse
24. I crouched down among the bushes on the other side, and crawled from one to the other—witness the disreputable state of my trouser knees—until I had reached the clump of rhododendrons just opposite to your bedroom window
25. Mahrak Chandlyr had been with Sir Bruhstair Ahbaht for almost twenty years, but he hadn’t quite reconciled himself to the sorts of disreputable people with whom the captain of an imperial warship was forced to hobnob
26. This memory did not make him shudder, but it had made of him what he was in the eyes of respectable people, a man careless of common decencies, something between a clever vagabond and a disreputable doctor
27. Pedrito, the younger, incorrigibly lazy and slovenly, had drifted aimlessly from one coast town to another, hanging about counting-houses, attaching himself to strangers as a sort of valet-de-place, picking up an easy and disreputable living
28. "What? All of them?" inquired the disreputable envoy of Senor Fuentes, with a
29. “That’s what happens when you hang out with disreputable characters
30. The man would soon show himself disreputable enough to make people disbelieve him
31. Garth may wonder, as he must have done before, at this disreputable fellow's claiming intimacy with me; but he will know nothing
32. These rules of conduct afforded a clear line of demarcation between responsible and disreputable stock financing
33. In fact, the only thing the place was ever known for was a string of slightly disreputable boarders through the years
34. that year, pedaling my Singer sewing machine, sewing up nightmares to make them look like halfway not so disreputable dreams, wiping the smirk off dirty little girls mouths and dropping it in the trash bins behind the badly dented cots in the mens gym
35. Gómez could not tear his eyes from that disreputable Vamenos
36. It looked as if it had been up all night for years; one of those disreputable birds that never preens its feathers or shines its beak
37. I should have preferred a sword in the hand of an equal—but a knife—in the stomach! I must look disreputable with all this blood and dirt on me
38. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several places
39. Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more disreputable
40. As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore, I am all anxiety to convince ye, ye landsmen, of the injustice hereby done to us hunters of whales
41. The fact is that my old schoolfellow, Lambert, might well, and indeed with certainty, be said to belong to one of those disreputable gangs of petty scoundrels who form associations for the sake of what is now called chantage, an offence nowadays defined and punished by our legal code
42. But things had gone beyond that, and were complicated by violence and resisting the poUce, besides I looked absolutely disreputable
43. “This is delirium, gentlemen, raving delirium,” cried the captain of police; “look at him: drunk, at this time of night, in the company of a disreputable woman, with the blood of his father on his hands
44. What a disreputable woman she must be! And you wished to marry her! What are you crying about? Is it a bitter dose? Never mind, you shall laugh yet
45. As a characteristic addition to the above, it was currently reported that the young prince really loved the lady to whom he was engaged, and had thrown her over out of purely Nihilistic motives, with the intention of giving himself the satisfaction of marrying a fallen woman in the face of all the world, thereby publishing his opinion that there is no distinction between virtuous and disreputable women, but that all women are alike, free; and a “fallen” woman, indeed, somewhat superior to a virtuous one
46. Pavel Pavlovitch had been turned out of the hotel for generally disreputable behaviour
47. The brother of Troukhatchevsky, answering my questions as to whether he frequented disreputable houses, said that a respectable man does not go where he may contract a disease, in a low and unclean spot, when one can find an honest woman
48. Every thing from the horse-trappings, the carriages, the gutta-percha wheels, the cloth of the coachman’s coat, to the stockings, shoes, flowers, velvet, gloves, and perfumes,—every thing is made by those people, some of whom often roll drunk into their dens or sleeping-rooms, and some stay with disreputable women in the night-lodging houses, while still others are put in jail
49. Porter then said that, for the purpose of coming to a decision on the bill, and putting an end to a scene which was, to say the least of it, disreputable to the House, he moved for the previous question on engrossing the bill
50. Evasions and violations of the laws are no longer disreputable