Definition of Disreputable person

1. Noun. Someone lacking public esteem.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Disreputable Person

disrelations
disrelish
disrelished
disrelishes
disrelishing
disrelisht
disremember
disremembered
disremembering
disremembers
disrepair
disrepairs
disreputabilities
disreputability
disreputable
disreputable person (current term)
disreputableness
disreputably
disreputation
disrepute
disreputes
disrespect
disrespectability
disrespectable
disrespected
disrespecter
disrespecters
disrespectful
disrespectfully
disrespectfulness

Literary usage of Disreputable person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of the Law of Evidence by Edmund Powell (1856)
"... after making the promise with the knowledge that the plaintiff was a disreputable person, he was induced to break it on the representation and advice of ..."

2. Annals & Memoirs of the Court of Peking (from the 16th to the 20th Century) by Edmund Backhouse, John Otway Percy Bland (1914)
"There is no doubt at all that these wicked minions shortened my father's life by their misdeeds, and for this ' That disreputable person ' and his brothers ..."

3. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1882)
"I was more interested in the disreputable person who mounted the box beside our driver directly we got out of our city gate," p. 218. ..."

4. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1871)
"I was more interested in the disreputable person who mounted the box beside our driver directly we got out of our city gate," p. 218. ..."

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