disreputability

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English

Noun

disreputability (countable and uncountable, plural disreputabilities)

  1. The state of being disreputable.
    • 1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239:
      [] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5:
      [] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.

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