Sentence examples for slightly disreputable from inspiring English sources

Finance companies like Household and its corporate sister, Beneficial, had long had slightly disreputable reputations.

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

I want the night to be a bit like that long-ago one in Glasgow – long, sexy and slightly disreputable.

The idea of such artifice still had the odor of slightly disreputable activities tied either to Broadway or bordellos.

These slightly disreputable cousins of corporate bonds have risen enormously in price in recent years as asset managers hunted desperately for higher yields.

In intellectual circles an interest in sport had long been considered a mild, slightly disreputable eccentricity rather than the near-essential social accoutrement it has since become.

The disreputable, slightly desperate show-business gusto of the old vaudeville is missing here.

Are those entirely disreputable?

Not too disreputable, really.

Currently, disreputable stage hypnotist.

Of questionable character; dubious; disreputable.