Sentence examples for disreputable character from inspiring English sources

Mytton was a Shropshire landowner and a thoroughly disreputable character.

Aguirre was considered to be a thoroughly disreputable character.

As a stunt, a tabloid newspaper took the disreputable character for lunch at the Savoy.

He is the type of man who counts his fingers after shaking hands with a newspaper reporter just to make sure the disreputable character didn't make off with his pinky or his thumb.

Ms Medina, a disreputable character who is also being investigated for alleged links to the ELN, another guerrilla group, had given a videotaped interview in 2004 in which she said that three of her followers were given government jobs in exchange for her vote on the re-election amendment.

Still, he's a refreshingly disreputable character in this stock, moralizing tale, which is based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster," the classic American story by Stephen Vincent Benét about a poor New Hampshire farmer, Jabez Stone, who sells his soul in exchange for wealth but is saved from damnation at a trial won by Webster.

Jesus mixed with disreputable characters.

The disreputable characters have varied adventures and talk lively colloquial Latin.

The Hell Hole was a gathering place for gangsters, writers, and other disreputable characters.

The king establishes a parliament, only to find that all its members are disreputable characters.

Nor is the idea that the world of high finance could provide meaty villains or, at least, intriguingly disreputable characters.