Sentence examples for disreputable materials from inspiring English sources

The idea of using disreputable materials for serious purposes appealed to me".

It is ridiculous, disreputable stuff".

Herbert, through his nefarious activities and seedy characteristics, provided material for the shabby, disreputable figures who flit through Graham's fiction".Shades of Greene" is an ambitious undertaking that has needed a prodigious amount of research.

There is nothing disreputable in the notion of producers rooting through used material, and one could, indeed, find cogent reasons for arguing that the history of cinema has been the aesthetic equivalent of refried beans.

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.

Though the film and its source material was a look back at the Bowery and the then practices of the disreputable down-and-out, a 1926 article in the New York Times reported that the film may have inspired a group of fake beggars.

Are those entirely disreputable?

Not too disreputable, really.

Currently, disreputable stage hypnotist.

Of questionable character; dubious; disreputable.

Jesus mixed with disreputable characters.