Sentence examples for disreputable as from inspiring English sources

In Greenwich Village, though, the proper thing was to be as disreputable as possible.

Ingenuousness is almost as disreputable as its opposite today, possibly more so.

Apparently danced with castanets by a couple or by a woman alone, it soon spread to Italy, where it was considered disreputable as it had been in Spain.

Independent comics used to be considered as disreputable as pornography (maybe more so), but now they're rightly recognized as fertile ground for artists.

In part, he's the reason why British crime cinema – low-budget, morally dubious and about as disreputable as it's ever been – is the genre that refuses to die.

He went on to direct slick amusements like "The Lost Boys" and "Flatliners," all as disreputable as they are diverting, along with the even better "Falling Down" (Michael Douglas goes ballistic as a beleaguered Los Angeles Everyman) and "Phone Booth Colin Farrellll gets hung up in the last phone booth in New York).

Catering to lovers of the well-written word and the well-mixed drink, Cocktail Noir is a lively look at the intertwining of alcohol and the underworld―represented by authors of crime both true and fictional and their glamorously disreputable characters, as well as by real life gangsters who built Prohibition-era empires on bootlegged booze.

The fact that it's someone as disreputable and as utterly unfit to hold public office as Tim Griffin only makes us even more determined.

His entourage included unstable and disreputable bullies such as Roy Cohn as well as stable and reputable bullies such as Robert Kennedy.

Barbara and Arthur Gelb -- he is a former theater critic who went on to become managing editor of The New York Times -- are less interested in these disreputable episodes as evidence of O'Neill's deeply flawed character than as raw material from which he created his own tragic vision.

The defence establishment still has ties with such disreputable regimes as North Korea's.