When Wilde arrived at L'Hôtel – then known as Hôtel d'Alsace – in August 1899, it was considered to be something of a disreputable place.
Up until Powell began making his speeches about race the views he was expressing had widespread currency in private but in public they were disreputable, stuck out there in a margin to the right of the Conservatives.
But we continue to do all of these environmentally disreputable things.
Michael's competitors were disreputable, he said, and he needed to be vigilant with potential clients.
As well as the Telegraph allegedly purging proper coverage of HSBC's role in tax evasion from its pages because of advertising, we now know the Barclay brothers took a loan from this disreputable bank.
But it's when something suspect or disreputable needs to be sanitised, that youth scenery comes into its own.
Quentin Tarantino may take the low road (trashy vitality, pastiche of already disreputable genres) and Steven Spielberg the high road – moral seriousness, historical scruple – but they have both arrived in the same territory this year, the subject of slavery in American history.
"Philosophically, we're Switzerland," says its co-founder, Matthew Prince.Attaching machines to a website's servers can block traffic from disreputable internet addresses, but let genuine users through.
The defence establishment still has ties with such disreputable regimes as North Korea's.
The implicit threat is that if the firm does not stump up, the knowledge might end up in disreputable hands.
Less forgivably, he created a faction within his party that included some of the most disreputable practitioners of Italy's seldom-edifying cold-war politics.
