Sentence examples for disreputable that from inspiring English sources

They don't like the political and policy implications of climate change, so they've decided not to believe in it — and they'll grab any argument, no matter how disreputable, that feeds their denial.

Modeling was once so disreputable that Bethann Hardison's mother thought she was a prostitute until she saw her in a television commercial.

The paranoiac Joe McCarthy-senatorenator is so buffoonish and disreputable that he gives anti-Communism a bad name even in an anti-Communist film.

We can then leave the word "philosophy" to those practical sages, reputable or disreputable, that tell people how best to live, proudly calling ourselves by a name far more appropriate to what we actually do.

"He would tell me only where it came from, not where it was made, and I sensed from him that it was vaguely disreputable that a priest would do such a thing".

O.K., so maybe they evaded taxes or bribed a public official, all obviously taboo, but they're not so disreputable that you don't want to be in the same room with them".

Working on the script of Vanity Fair, Davies tried out another adviser, but the interloper was phased out when it became clear that only Uglow properly knew the disreputable things that went on in 19th-century pleasure gardens.

Not to mention that many pet stores buy their parrots from disreputable sources that use inhumane methods for acquiring and breeding their birds.

But Toni Erdmann possesses a disreputable charm that is constantly surprising and finally deeply moving.

The tactic has a rich, albeit disreputable history that seems to trace its modern roots to Bill Laimbeer and his 1980s Detroit Pistons teammates.

Mr. Keh says DugDug screens prescription sites displayed on its searches to weed out disreputable carriers that may be offering counterfeit drugs).