Sentence examples for look disreputable from inspiring English sources

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Vladimir Kramnik doesn't mind if his pawns look disreputable.

But, you know, she made sure I didn't look disreputable, I think.

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The deer are trapped in their winter coats, looking disreputable.

They look like disreputable children's party entertainers, blowing in and out of balloons till they slump on the floor and start giggling manically.

And he probably suspected, too, that as a director of horror movies he would never be taken entirely seriously as a filmmaker and might even wind up looking faintly disreputable.

Richardson's New Topographical Dictionary of Rome tells us that it was thoroughly studied before it was demolished in 1936 — by then the much smaller heap looked quite disreputable and was felt to be getting in the way of the traffic circle around the Colosseum.

This documentary from Leslie Zemeckis presents the history of American burlesque and the women behind the feathers, fans and body glitter -- from old-timers like Kitty West, Tempest Storm, Betty Rowland and Blaze Starr to the contemporary star Dita Von Teese -- and gives "a thoughtful new look at a disreputable old art form," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

The neo-burlesque movement, personified by the glamour-puss likes of Dita Von Teese, striptease troupes like the Velvet Hammer (in Los Angeles) and the transformation of pole-dancing into a mainstream fitness routine (from Tony Soprano's pleasure palace to yours), suggest that the time is ripe for a thoughtful new look at a disreputable old art form.

Yet the time has come for a look back at those disreputable months of a decade ago, and not simply because some of its biggest hits have held up better than expected.

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It was an ibex, though in profile it looked like a slightly disreputable unicorn.

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