disreputability

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noun

The state of being disreputable.

Similar
unrespectabilitydisreputableness
Opposite
reputability
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Meanings

noundisreputability (countable and uncountable, plural disreputabilities)

plural disreputabilities

  1. countableuncountableThe state of being disreputable.

    […] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.

    1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5
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    […] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.

    1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239

Synonyms & antonyms

noundishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation

Similar
unrespectabilitydisreputableness
Opposite
reputability
Broader
dishonorablenessdishonourableness
Also see
disreputablenessunrespectability

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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APA

disreputability. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disreputability

MLA

“disreputability.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disreputability. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disreputability,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disreputability.

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