disreputable

comparative more disreputable · superlative most disreputable

1. Not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.

   Antimiscegenation laws were directed primarily at people of color and at low-status, disreputable whites, the poor white trash who refused to uphold the color line.

   2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 82

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   They publish a bi-monthly newsletter, The Pen and Quill, which provides needed addresses, facisimiles of autographs, interesting articles, promotes philographic conventions and exposes disreputable dealers and forgers.

   1986, Charles S. Slaybaugh, Grandparent's Catalog: An Idea Book for Family Sharing, page 88

   “I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’

   1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725

   Synonyms: ill-famed, infamous, nithing, ill-famed, infamous, nefarious, niddering, nidering

plural disreputables

1. A person who is not reputable.