Sentence examples for in disreputable from inspiring English sources

The implicit threat is that if the firm does not stump up, the knowledge might end up in disreputable hands.

Tells how D'Amato & Giuliani, dressed in disreputable clothing, went to what amounts to an open-air drug market in Washington Heights.

Nor is it some sexed-up sports game like Outlaw Tennis; there are no illegal matches in disreputable warehouses or exploding Ping-Pong balls.

The second big change was the liberalisation of the mortgage market in the 1980s: when I first bought a flat in 1980, I had to pay 2% extra to a building society that specialised in disreputable risks such as defrocked vicars and Fleet Street journalists (as I then was).

"This was the future of Hong Kong, a Chinese system of threats and bribes and crookery, whispers, and dire consequences in disreputable places," Bunt muses.

The peculiar topography of this dreamscape seems to consist of a hospital for disabled children (where Kelly goes to find redemption as a tough-love physical therapist); the palatial home of the local millionaire playboy (Michael Dante) with whom Kelly falls in purifying love; and, in the disreputable town across the river, a bordello called Candy's where the women market themselves as bonbons.

Now, if Martin really wants to cement the play's place in history, he should follow in the disreputable footsteps of Voltaire's Hernani and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – and arrange for a riot on opening night.

After all, some of this book unfolds glamorously in "a disreputable world of sports cars and drinks in the afternoon and shady business deals, a violent world in which one was liable to be set upon in dark alleyways by silent, hard-breathing men with cudgels".

She is intent on entering a competition in a disreputable bar called the Dusty Mouth, where sharpshooters fight it out in a pistol pit.

So Randy is at the bottom of the pile in a disreputable subculture and it takes considerable talent to make an audience believe in his professional pride and to respect him as a figure with a tragic dimension.

The lasting quality of a luxury Louis Vuitton Speedy 35 handbag is not even close in style and substance to the phony one purchased after onerous negotiations in a disreputable Canal Street basement infested with rats and roaches.