disreputability
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
disreputability (countable and uncountable, plural disreputabilities)
- The state of being disreputable.
- 1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239:
- […] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four[1], Part One, Chapter 5:
- […] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.
References[edit]
- “disreputability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.