| 单词 | disreputable |
| 例句 | He would try to find a source, instead, among the most disreputable, dangerous group of Oklahomans: the outlaws of the Osage Hills. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It helped to be a wee disreputable when you were a young surgeon, especially when it came to materials for post-mortem dissection. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There has been little written on the end of alchemy, yet an activity which was respectable in the eyes of Boyle and Newton had become entirely disreputable by the 1720s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The disreputable circumstances surrounding Lee's pregnancy were enough to influence the pathologist who conducted the autopsy to conclude that the stillborn baby was born alive and was then suffocated by Lee. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Bessie crossed the street to avoid the jumble of saloons and their disreputable clientele. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “My confidence in you has been seriously diminished since I heard about the disreputable activities in which you engaged on Thursday last. Please repeat.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He rode up on his horses with his associates, five men of disreputable mien, led by a fearsome Indian scout who wore a necklace of shriveled ears. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As usual I found them slighdy disreputable: making jokes about things that were no joking matter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With no money and no time to settle, we moved to a different ramshackle rental cottage or boardinghouse every season until I was so pregnant with Rachel that our nomad state seemed disreputable. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not changed his clothes in some days and he looked delightfully disreputable, yet mannered and cool and light in the saddle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath he was wearing a simple white shirt and a pair of rather disreputable looking pants held up by a piece of frayed rope. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Inept or disreputable companies have on more than one occasion failed to deliver crucial logistical support—oxygen, for instance—as promised. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The pale stubble of his new whiskers made him look old, disreputable, and grumpy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They must have looked very disreputable in their dirty clothes, drenched with sweat, and torn by all the thornbushes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He told Charles it was “a wild scheme,” one that would be disreputable to his future career as a clergyman. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The subject was then considered by most professional astronomers to be at least slightly disreputable, tainted with Lowellian excesses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z High and Keith were smooth and respectable where C.P. was rough and, despite the numerous calls of support, still somewhat disreputable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to believe someone as disreputable as the Lady Lillian won the heart of the prince.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Ignatius found himself in perhaps the most disreputable office that he had ever entered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The structure here is more mechanical, and the ambience scruffier, as the complicated story shifts from one disreputable lowlife to another. Movie Review: In ‘Easy Money: Hard to Kill,’ Wily Social Climber Is Back 2014-02-13T23:26:19Z The thing is, you still have to go to sort of disreputable media to follow certain kinds of stories. Bill James, True-Crime Obsessive, on the Genre’s Enduring Importance 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z For the third corner of the family triangle, Mr. Leight needed someone who could be both disreputable and sympathetic. Familial Discord? Enough to Back a Boxer in a Corner 2011-01-09T02:34:37Z Two members of the band, it turned out, were too disreputable to get visas automatically. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z People who use other people’s anger for their own ends are almost always dangerous and disreputable. After a month of violence, a recommitment to principles 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z While television programs and the print media may mock the celebrities who have had too much work done or the dangers of disreputable doctors, Ms. Kron knows plenty of women who still want it. The Journalist Joan Kron and the World of Plastic Surgery 2012-12-26T21:43:08Z After scale, natural science, fiction and disreputable prying, a malign secrecy is the final major theme in Curiosity. Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary 2013-05-18T08:01:28Z The disreputable characters invariably have hearts of gold. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Did his theoretical brilliance counter the weight of disreputable rages? Obscure Musicology Journal Sparks Battles Over Race and Free Speech 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z A huge, disreputable, grisly hit, the film's impact was immediate, but its initial critical reception was largely baffled. Oscars: That didn't get nominated? 2011-02-18T16:49:00Z The advertising firm was so successful, despite its disreputable office parties, that it was practically white shoe. Television: Changes for Fourth Season of ?Mad Men? 2010-07-16T19:01:00Z Museums often take the opportunity of a building or renovation project to “rebrand” themselves, an ugly and disreputable concept much in fashion in the culture industry. Subtle changes make a big impression at the National Gallery East Building 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z More years ago than I want to remember, I was wandering down a disreputable street near New York's once-seedy Times Square when I spied a hand-lettered sign in front of a storefront theater. Film review: 'Fifty Shades' brings little pleasure 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z It's got Russell Crowe as a disreputable mayor, gulping neat scotch at his desk and complaining that "civilsation's gone to pieces". Broken City – review 2013-02-28T21:40:01Z However disreputable its hoary thesis — that real masculinity resides in the fists — its director, Ilya Naishuller, knows how to make a film move. ‘Nobody’ Review: A Wolf in Wimp’s Clothing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The circumstances are seedy: Cauley is scrounging money from his mother, a disreputable figure because she’s living with the lover for whom she broke up her marriage. A Young Wife Toys With Adultery 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z On one side, there's Hard's Gary Richards who wants to push electronic music even further away from rave's disreputable and daft past. How rave music conquered America 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z First, is it really true that all Muslims and Arabs on the show are either terrorists or otherwise disreputable? Homeland is not Islamophobic despite what some critics claim 2012-12-24T00:05:34Z When Mr. Muller, the author of “Dark City Dames,” interviewed Ms. Gray at her home, he mentioned he had recently seen her playing a disreputable schemer on a rerun of “Perry Mason.” Coleen Gray, Who Played Film Noir Naïfs, Dies at 92 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z “X” is a clever and exuberant throwback to a less innocent time, when movies could be naughty, disreputable and idiosyncratic. ‘X’ Review: Trash, Art and the Movies 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Born into unremarkable means in the English Midlands, he bought his family’s coat of arms — with the motto “Non Sans Droit,” or “Not Without Right” — from a dealer who proved disreputable. Katherine Duncan-Jones, Who Cast Shakespeare as a Boor, Dies at 81 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z A. It’s the beginning of this uncomfortable and combustible relationship between Miles and Dave, this disreputable dude who showed up at his door saying that he’s there to write a comeback story. Don Cheadle Narrates a Scene From ‘Miles Ahead’ 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z At the age of 54, Noé still has the self-conscious air of a disreputable young thug. Gaspar Noé: 'Six people walked out of Climax? No! I usually have 25%' 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Earlier this week it emerged that Rowling's next novel includes references to phone hacking and features a disreputable journalist among its characters. BBC adaptation of Casual Vacancy to star Michael Gambon 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z It means “disreputable or sordid,” such as “a neighborhood to which people go in search of illegal drugs.” Gene Weingarten: You news, you lose But they know their horror, their kung fu and all the other disreputable genres that draw the Toronto festival’s liveliest audiences — certainly the only ones that bring inflatable beach balls to the screenings. Where Horror Gets the Red Carpet Treatment 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z On the night before Donleavy’s death, I happened to be speaking with an old friend, a former rare-books dealer in New Orleans, who has a special place in his disreputable heart for Donleavy. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z The US Court of Appeal described the Conan Doyle Estate Ltd's efforts to charge licence fees to for which there is "no legal basis" as "a disreputable business practice". Doyle estate ordered to pay costs 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z In fact, the grownup world is usually frowning at the whole idea of being in something as disreputable as a pop group. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z In 1962, broadcasters still regarded pop music as deeply disreputable, if not dangerous. How the Beatles' Love Me Do began the transformation of British music 2012-10-04T15:08:33Z Ferrara, it seems, remains too disreputable a director to be introduced to polite society, and his film altogether too drunken, shrill and volatile to be paraded on the carpet. Cannes 2014 review: Welcome to New York - Depardieu's grunting triumph exposes more than just himself 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z He starred in a lame television series called ‘Truth,” Mr. Feldstein writes, in which he “grilled disreputable characters hooked up to polygraph machines to see whether they were lying.” Books of The Times: The Supersnooper Pursuing the Paranoid Politician 2010-09-28T22:31:00Z Early on, some saw films as disreputable, even dangerous — and what were ladies and gents doing in the dark? — but also as a conduit to moral uplift, social reform, education. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z As we’d seen before, Jaime’s page was short and disreputable, which pained him—a low point was when Joffrey mocked him for it. “Game of Thrones” Season 8 Finale Recap: The Iron Throne 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z He has a large nose, keeps curious hours and knows disreputable characters. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z It's a truism that goes right back to film's disreputable beginnings as a peep-show at the circus. Naked in New York: Gérard Depardieu strips for the big screen 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Carpenter has been equally self-aware about his own image; one of his refrains over the decades is that he is working in a disreputable genre, which is not as true as it once was. A Lord of Fright Reclaims His Dark Domain 2011-06-24T20:53:53Z The Rum Diary and Withnail & I have this in common: they’re louche — a word I have to look up every time I think of using it, but which means appealingly disreputable. Johnny Depp in The Rum Diary: Yo Ho Huh? 2011-10-27T02:55:09Z This Macbeth is an ordinary sinner, with a mixed-up marriage, who becomes, almost instantly, disreputable. Before I Sleep; Eurydice; Macbeth 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Throughout their marriage her desire to settle down to a respectable way of living clashes with his antic pursuit of a ticket to the good life, however shady or disreputable the terms might be. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The fates of these and other films maudits — a useful French term for movies that are accursed, slandered and otherwise disreputable — can be taken as cautionary tales with conflicting morals. Cross-Cuts: Reconsidering Box Office Bombs Years After the Fact 2013-08-23T12:44:45Z In Elizabethan times it lay outside the city walls - free from regulation by city leaders hostile to theaters and other disreputable entertainments. New playhouse planned for Shakespeare theater site 2010-07-16T14:41:00Z I don’t know if we can call “The Guest” a good movie, since Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett have a lot invested in seeming disreputable. “The Guest”: “Downton Abbey” heartthrob wreaks havoc on America 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z But they are a fascinating, colorfully disreputable crew. ‘Brothers of the Quill’: How an 18th-century hack found his literary footing 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Horror, always a disreputable genre, is the perfect vessel for political comment and George’s films were always subversive and knowing. Edgar Wright, Alice Lowe, John Landis and Ben Wheatley on zombie king George A Romero 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z All were built outside the city walls, free from regulation by civic leaders hostile to theaters and other disreputable entertainments. Remains of Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre found 2012-06-06T17:01:05Z Despite efforts to sanitize them or give them a feminist slant, a whiff of something disreputable lingers, something slightly kinky. Fairy Tales About the Fears Within 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z In the following decades, the business of horror expanded and became more diverse, as the genre shed its disreputable image, gaining more respect from critics and even attention from the Academy Awards. Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z And so, at the age of 53, Oldman touches down like some disreputable Rip Van Winkle, a reminder of times gone by. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z It’s likely that Homer regarded photography as slightly disreputable for a painter to acknowledge, as well as of limited utility. ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ Review: An Unclear Creative Influence 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the world it entered — one without any of its charming, and no longer disreputable, offspring — Spacewar! must have been transfixing. Exhibition Review: ‘Spacewar!’: Video Games at Museum of the Moving Image 2012-12-15T00:21:18Z Ree's thoroughly disreputable dad has gone missing, which doesn't exactly qualify as headline news. "Winter's Bone": American film of the year? 2010-06-12T23:01:00Z Nixon was interested, primarily, in keeping the full extent of his criminal and disreputable behavior from becoming public, although he eventually did succeed in creating a Nixon library. Perspective | Trump wants a library. He must never have one. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z For nearly the entire film I couldn't figure out what disreputable real-life person Fox actually does look like, and then I nailed it: Lance Armstrong. "My Son Hunter": There's barely even a movie inside this deep-state right-wing grift 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z It was a very disreputable film, spoken of in whispers. Q&A: Director Frank Darabont on AMC's 'The Walking Dead' 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z There is a story of riots in the 1870s near Oxford against a vicar who had refused burial rites to a disreputable local character. Dust to dust 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Even by those standards, John Brinkley — who was awarded his medical degree by a disreputable diploma mill — was one of a kind. 21 of the wildest cons in history 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z The notion shared by most journalists and commentators seems to be that the drugs work, but because they're rarely used for legitimate medical reasons, they are stained, disreputable. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z To me he put it succinctly: "I don't think that people who calculate on having successful exhibitions deserve to succeed – I find something disreputable about it." Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z But thanks to some unpredictable recipe of casting and charisma, Con Air remains the oddest of 1990s popcorn movies: half disreputable prison flick, half gleaming Aerosmith video. Muscles, mullets and Malkovich: has Con Air got even weirder with age? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “Chain Saw” is a disreputable exploitation flick made with such artistry that it transforms into high art. ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ and the Lessons Few Horror Films Get Right 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Why can't I get on board with these movies, which strive simply for a rollicking, disreputable good time? 'Hangover 2': Yep, we're waking up here. Again. 2011-05-25T13:10:00Z He brought those years of not making it to Henry, a would-be actor whose career has been deformed by a series of beer commercials, and to Ben, a strait-laced accountant with a disreputable past. In ‘Severance,’ Adam Scott Gets to Work 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Has horror lost some of its disreputable pleasures, not to mention its single-minded determination to terrify? Home Is Where the Horror Is 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z "Sons of Anarchy" is scuzzy, lively, often brilliant and totally disreputable; I realize that by complaining it wasn't nominated, I'm asking for the Emmys to take place in an alternate universe, but whatever -- it's great. The Emmys' most glaring omissions 2011-07-15T13:50:00Z Those reels eventually ended up in the vaults of the film distribution company Vinegar Syndrome, known for such disreputable titles as “Christmas Evil” and “Don’t Answer the Phone!” With ‘New York Ninja,’ Lights, Camera and, Finally, Action 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z This is a daft story which, if it were true, would only be fit for a Channel 5 documentary about a disreputable Kevlar salesman exploiting billionaires with personality disorders. David Mitchell on Brits as Hollywood superheroes 2011-02-06T00:05:59Z And yet Vice, for all its virtues, is too wild, baggy and disreputable to play well with Academy members - and this is surely for the best. Inherent Vice review: a free range freak-out for California dreamers 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Given the option, Clinton has apparently chosen the harder road – to keep warping the narrative, keep challenging the idea that disreputable women always end in ruin and wreck and flame. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z He lives in my skin like a disreputable roomer in a cheap boarding house. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Forty years ago, when much of this science was new, the physicist Freeman Dyson complained that some of his colleagues felt it was “disreputable” to study our universe’s destiny. This Is How It All Ends 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z But it wasn't until one hot summer when I fell under the sway of the ribald, disreputable, restless prose of Chester Himes that I found my truest muse. Literary Idol: Nelson George on Chester Himes 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z They look like disreputable children’s party entertainers, blowing in and out of balloons till they slump on the floor and start giggling manically. Is the growth in nitrous oxide misuse a laughing matter? 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z In disreputable newsrooms, stories are still adjusted to fit the template of readers’ expectations. Kirk Douglas: why his finest role was as a cynical newspaper hack 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Frustrated and constricted, I decided that I wanted to do something my peers would find disreputable, so I started a rock band again. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z But everybody comes across as human here: the conniving ecclesiastics who propel Henry into war, the fatuous French Dauphin, the speechifying Welsh Captain Fluellen and Henry's disreputable old chums from his wild youth. ArtsBeat: In London, a 'Henry V' That Doesn't Take Sides 2012-06-27T15:15:09Z Retiree With Gun Seeks Young Thugs Charles Bronson, meet Michael Caine, who in “Harry Brown” matches you vigilante move for move in the annals of big, bad, bloody, disreputable entertainment. | 'Harry Brown': Michael Caine as Gangster-Shooting Vigilante 2010-04-29T23:04:00Z Her book, she confesses — in what will be a long series of shamefaced admittances — “is full of disreputable characters: unruly, often a little morally shady.” The siren song of the scumbag: Why smart women can’t resist terrible men 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z “I Spit on Your Grave” deliberately placed itself on the far margin of acceptability, and like other disreputable movies that go on to attract a cult following, it has a certain transgressive, contrarian energy. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z Those disco hits now seem like anthems for these eager American conquistadors, who back in Israel produced well-received films like “I Love You Rosa” and many more disreputable titles. Film Society of Lincoln Center Lauds Cannon Films 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z For many years, he also appeared opposite strippers and other performers in burlesque shows, vaudeville’s more disreputable cousin. Irving Benson, comedy veteran of burlesque, dies at 102 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Visiting disreputable and perhaps even dangerous neighborhoods, the scissors they carried “became a means of protection,” Ms. Collenette said. How Elegant, How Lethal 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z I don’t believe in canceling art because of disreputable artists; I look forward to the upcoming “Dancin’” and no doubt an umpteenth “West Side Story.” Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z But Charlie finds out: Mr. Church hangs out at a disreputable bar called Jelly’s Place, where, as it turns out, he’s the highly esteemed house pianist. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z According to the program notes, the Aïtas belong to a “profound singing tradition” but can also occupy a disreputable social position with erotic overtones. Dance Review: A Moroccan Tradition in Full Cry 2010-09-23T22:05:00Z Posner sharply criticized the business practices of the Conan Doyle estate, calling them "disreputable." Sherlock Holmes is really, really in the public domain — really 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z While the trailer invited comparisons to “Child’s Play,” the slasher film featuring the doll Chucky, that movie had a much grimier, disreputable undercurrent before the sequels and reboots turned goofy. ‘M3gan’ Review: Wherever I Go, She Goes 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z In those years, upright citizens were inclined to think jazz disreputable, scarcely fit for nightclubs, much less for an institution of higher learning. Leon Breeden, Jazz Educator, Dies at 88 2010-08-14T04:45:00Z A better answer to Carroll’s question would be: We need men to vote a certain other disreputable man out of office, because women alone may not be able to. Review | We know about E. Jean Carroll’s rape accusation. How is the rest of her book? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Advertising and propaganda are the oldest forms of misinformation, which has metastasized through such new media as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and their even more disreputable cousins such as Parler and Gab. Review | Artist Barbara Kruger is still right about everything. Let’s listen up. 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Back then, circuses were a stigmatized form of entertainment in the U.S., considered disreputable for their association with gambling, grift, scantily clad female performers, profanity and alcohol. The creepy clown emerged from the crass and bawdy circuses of the 19th century 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z “The river of his literary ambitions — his interest in ‘respectable’ literature — joins the river of his guilty, disreputable, explosively imaginative pulp writing,” Mr. Lethem said in a phone interview. Philip K. Dick?s Masterpiece Years 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z Unfortunately though, the idea that one avuncular or particularly disreputable but intellectually brilliant individual can transform society is even more bogus in relation to news than it is in relation to politics. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z But it began its life as circus sideshow, on the magic-lantern and peepshow circuit of the late-19th century, and a disreputable pedigree has defined it ever since. Does Lars von Trier’s ‘vomitive’ new film spell the end for provocative cinema? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Nor is the idea that the world of high finance could provide meaty villains or, at least, intriguingly disreputable characters. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z As Martha Lucy, an art historian, put it in her catalog essay, speaking of Valadon’s modeling, “working-class status meant that there were fewer moral impediments to pursuing such disreputable employment.” Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z They are a disreputable, comic bunch who spend the journey telling riotous, rude tales. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z The New York Asian Film Festival has an image to uphold, based on a well-honed story of low-rent beginnings and disreputable programming. Critic?s Notebook: A Rogue Film Festival Earns Respect (Sort Of) 2011-06-30T22:19:02Z Coppola’s film was true to itself, and the artful approach to a disreputable genre that had made the series seem, 18 years earlier, so revolutionary. How ‘Goodfellas’ and the Gangster Class of 1990 Changed Hollywood 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z “They’re going to have to answer to their conscience, to their children, to their own legacy for doing something so disreputable.” Pelosi says House GOP doing a ‘real disservice’ by voting for Jordan for speaker 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Opposition forces were undermined by factional disputes and dull or disreputable leaders. For nearly a quarter century, an AP correspondent watched the Putin era unfold in Russia 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The violence and treachery of the imperial family especially tarred Agrippina as a disreputable woman. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z “It’s disreputable. It’s not a news outlet. It’s a far-right outlet.” Few have been more damaged by Fox's content than its fans | Jean Guerrero 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z There are also historical templates for the younger royal being cast in a negative light, accused of dissolute and disreputable or as a rival threatening to undermine the authority of the elder. The enduring anguish of being the royal 'spare' 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z As president, Trump took hostage deals to a whole new level — making them, for the first time, a pillar of U.S. foreign policy rather than a disreputable necessity. Opinion | It’s good that Griner is home. But the hostage bazaar has to close. 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “Somewhere in the process there’s a disreputable repair operation.” Thieves are targeting semitrucks to steal one pricey part 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z There were no crowds and very few “disreputable” looking folks. Seattle: Downtown needs you 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Attacks on the legitimacy of the U.S. electoral system tend to come from the most disreputable and ill-informed voices in conservatism — and from the most highly esteemed and knowledgeable authorities in liberalism. Opinion | The midterms have busted the myth of conservative ‘minority rule’ 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “A person could engage in disreputable activity and try to cloak it by claiming it didn’t happen, that the allegations are part of a Scientology conspiracy, when in fact the behavior actually occurred,” Kent said. In Los Angeles and New York, the Church of Scientology is on opposite ends of two rape cases 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Their provenance erased, the precious metals and gems could be sold to diamond dealers, pawn shops or disreputable jewelers, one of the men said. After the Brink's heist, where did the stolen jewelry go? 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Mahdouani said many Tunisians had grown to see Berber tattoos as low class or disreputable. Tunisian tattoo artist revives Berber designs for new generation 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z That is what happens when views held by the “other side” are deemed no longer debatable but disreputable. Opinion | How to counter today’s tribalism and build ‘a more perfect union’ 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Index on Censorship, which campaigns for free speech worldwide, said it was increasingly concerned British police saw journalists as unsavoury or potentially disreputable - a view more usually seen in authoritarian regimes, not advanced democracies. Police corruption: Editors fear police guidance on links with journalists 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z They willfully joined a disreputable competitor, knowingly violating the terms of their PGA Tour membership, in exchange for unconscionable bribes. Perspective | LIV Golf sellouts bailed on the PGA Tour. Now they want back in? 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z At the same time, talking about the possibility of life elsewhere in the cosmos no longer seems as outlandish or disreputable as it once was. With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The Stuckey’s in front of her was beyond decrepit; it was disreputable. The Pralines, Pecan Log Rolls and Nostalgia Fueling the Stuckey’s Revival 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z I wish this court had not been rendered disreputable and functionally illegitimate by the underhanded and politically-tainted means of its assemblage, and I wish it were not poised to catapult this country back 50 years. Now justices know what it’s like to have their privacy invaded 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Scott’s admirers may miss that disreputable edge, the unrepentantly vulgar sensibility that made the original “Top Gun” a dreamy, voluptuous hoot. Review: Tom Cruise flies high — again — in the exhilarating 'Top Gun: Maverick' 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z But the biggest injustice he perpetrated was to make his job seem both undoable and disreputable. Perspective | Don’t misinterpret Mark Emmert’s failure. The NCAA can be saved. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “If Fox were half disreputable as CNN claimed 100 times each week — or used to claim, that is — then Fox would be the CNN Scandal of the Moment Network,” Mr. Green said. Report: CNN’s on-air mentions of Fox News plunge after Jeff Zucker resigns 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Libor was once “on top of the world,” he said, but became a “disreputable, tottering old geezer at the end.” Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The United States will be built back better when it has been instructed to be ashamed of itself and is eager to discard its disreputable heritage. Opinion | The malicious, historically illiterate 1619 Project keeps rolling on 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “There’s something about him that’s disreputable that also keeps him current.” How Bennington's literary brat pack spawned an addictive, L.A.-obsessed podcast 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Clinton's description was in fact about much more than the disreputable people who flocked to Trump's banner. Hillary Clinton was right about the "deplorables" — and about the end of Roe v. Wade 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Like many engrossing games, counterfactual history is a bit disreputable. Opinion | What if Colin Powell had run for president in 1996? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Because we so clearly wanted out of Afghanistan, we agreed to disreputable terms, and then proceeded to pretend that the Taliban were meeting even those. Opinion | What Trump’s Disgraceful Deal With the Taliban Has Wrought 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z A potentially significant blow to corruption in Central America is the list of officials too disreputable to deal with. News analysis: U.S. expands fight against Central American corruption. Will it stem immigration? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z “He is setting himself up as Trump’s running mate or successor by showing a genius for appealing to every disreputable prejudice of the GOP base,” Washington Post columnist Max Boot wrote this week. How ‘Rockstar’ DeSantis positioned himself as a Trump successor 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “They speak to the last overt remains of the disreputable, unsocialized, inelegant parts of themselves the grown-ups are trying so hard to push firmly underground.” Review: New collection of columns by the late Jenny Diski 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z Daniel A. Pérez, a lawyer who represented one of Mr. Greenberg’s former employees in a labor dispute, likened the disreputable saga to a Netflix series: “It’s like the Tiger King got elected tax collector.” ‘Like the Tiger King Got Elected Tax Collector’: Inside the Case That Ensnared Matt Gaetz 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z What with its paradisal weather and a certain ethical looseness when it comes to the rich and famous, Florida has always been a desirable location for the well-heeled disreputable. Perspective | Trump made official what has always been obvious: He’s Florida Man 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Vamos said British courts have blocked extradition to countries with disreputable courts, such as Russia, and others with inhumane and degrading prisons. British judge set to rule on extradition of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to U.S. 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z “Mank” gleefully examines the disreputable underside of old-school Hollywood and its minions: the spit under the polish, the dreck that undergirds the dreams. Review | ‘Mank’ is a movie made to delight critics and cinephiles. All others, not so much. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Such life-changing operations done without consent or clear communication from the medical provider are the stuff of horror shows - or of other disreputable times in U.S. history. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Theirs is a chorus of hope that drowns out the spurious attacks of a disreputable man and his sycophants. Opinion | Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters. 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z At a time when game shows were often seen as disreputable ghosts of the past, an astonishing 30 million viewers tuned in three nights in a week. Regis Philbin, TV’s indignant everyman, dies at 88 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Rather, they were intent on showing that he had been deceitful and used racial dog whistles, and thus, was a disreputable representative for linguistics. How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, disreputable commercial clinics are cashing in on the hype, peddling unproven “cures” for numerous conditions, based on exosome preparations of questionable provenance. Inside the stem-cell pharmaceutical factory 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In a dingy, disreputable Hamburg bar, amid the noise and the squalor, she detected something beautiful. Astrid Kirchherr: a stylish outsider who saw the beauty of the Beatles 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z This was one of the most popular and entertaining examples of a disreputable genre, and it’s nice to see it treated like the piece of cinema history it is. ‘Knives Out’ is one sharp murder mystery — with a surprising political edge 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Judicial reform efforts were being frustrated, and disreputable judges remained, he added. Zelensky wants to break oligarchs’ grip on Ukraine. But at least one was once a pal. 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “The noun pettifogger has two main senses: ‘A lawyer whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable; shyster’ and ‘one given to quibbling over trifles.’ Iowa smiles upon Transhumanist candidate 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z This year draws to a close in our nation’s capital with attention focused on two of its most disreputable public officials: Ward 2 D.C. Opinion | Jack Evans and Donald Trump are D.C.’s odd, corrupt couple of the year 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z His disgraceful behaviour fits in with his wider pattern of collaboration with disreputable and dangerous conspiracy theorists.” Farage appeared with antisemitic pastor on US web radio show 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z They left behind work as reporters for the Wall Street Journal to found Fusion, which Simpson described in 2016 as “journalism for rent” — a notion that journalists tend to find somewhat disreputable. Review | Explaining the Steele dossier — and how information flows in Washington 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s time for the mandarins to listen to the disreputable miscreants. Perspective | Only the scoundrels and weirdos are telling the truth about working for Trump 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Public-health officials are finding common threads among the products involved in the recent vaping deaths and injuries, and tracing them to black-market producers and disreputable merchants. Vaping response should be science-based, not prohibition 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Filthy and affectionate, lowdown and fizzily high-spirited, “Dolemite Is My Name” pays homage to the business of show at its most disreputable and delectably entertaining. Review | Eddie Murphy is back, baby, in the lowdown and fizzily high-spirited ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The monarch’s actual oldest son, Hal, has abandoned the court, preferring to spend his time drinking and carousing in disreputable parts of London with what are usually referred to as “low companions.” Review: 'The King' makes Timothée Chalamet the ruler of all he surveys 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Broeksmit, Enrich admitted, is not a particularly credible human being, given his disreputable past, and his seeming desire for his story to be dramatized and monetized. Son of late Deutsche Bank executive offered trove of documents to House Democrats and the FBI 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “Adam?” he said, in a mildly disreputable English accent. How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z He was criticised for behaving inappropriately by associating with a disreputable woman. Brother of murdered model Qandeel Baloch jailed 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Perhaps the best strategy for closing down disreputable zoos and tiger farms, suggested Mr. Wiek and Mr. Redford, would be to sterilize the inbred and mixed-breed tigers. Thailand Shuttered a Notorious Tiger Zoo, but the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Republicans will clearly keep following their longstanding pattern of inviting disreputable witnesses to testify before Congress in hopes of frustrating all attempts at genuine oversight. Republicans return to Congress: More bad faith than ever! Democrats fight back, a little 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z This exuberant horror anthology, styled as a disreputable comic, features five tales of cosmic comeuppance scripted by King and directed by the zombie overlord George A Romero. The best Stephen King movies … ranked! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z In July, last year the Ministry of Justice limited their cut of any payout to 20% plus VAT, and banned upfront fees, which Mr Evans says "only disreputable firms ever used". How PPI has changed our financial lives 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z "Establish a federal no-call policy, including a registry of disreputable federal law enforcement officers, so testimony from untrustworthy sources does not lead to criminal convictions," Sanders' plan stated. Sanders calls for 'registry of disreputable federal law enforcement officers,' releasing half of all US prisoners 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The court should assert that the rational basis test does not require courts to be willfully oblivious of disreputable legislative motives. Opinion | Surely Chicago has bigger things to worry about than a cupcake truck 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Regimes, however intellectually disreputable, rarely are unable to attract intellectuals eager to rationalize the regimes’ behavior. Opinion | ‘National conservatism’ is ‘Elizabeth Warren conservatism’ 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z "There is a history of deception, concealment of information from the state legislature, and failed inspection reports. It is a disreputable abortion clinic that should be shut down in the interest of public safety." Missouri could soon be first 'abortion-free' state since Roe vs Wade 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z A star rating can be turned into a disreputable marketing tool. Are star ratings just useless shiny objects? Our critics debate 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z "Many would consider these to be sufficient to establish that he was a dangerous and disreputable man." Woman wins libel case over 'strangle' post 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Glamorous, gladiatorial, faintly disreputable, the concerto is an essential feature of modern concert life. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Of course Trump is capable of all these disreputable things. Opinion | The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z It’s the place to come and unwind, but officials say it’s also known to have some of the most disreputable characters in the galaxy. New Disney area to immerse parkgoers in a Star Wars story 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Some of the screen’s most disreputable characters are press agents, despite being the profession best placed to improve its own image. Why do onscreen publicists get such a bad rap? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z That said, From Dusk Till Dawn reveals the differences between Tarantino — who’s obsessed with “trash cinema,” yet looks for ways to elevate it — and Rodriguez, who’s perfectly happy making proudly disreputable entertainment. One of Robert Rodriguez’s wildest films is on Netflix 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z "Again, I am forced to reiterate that this story rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits filed by a disreputable cast of individuals willing to lie for money or attention." Bryan Singer to stay as 'Red Sonja' director despite more sexual misconduct claims 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z In a statement to BBC News, he added that the story "rehashes claims from bogus lawsuits filed by a disreputable cast of individuals willing to lie for money or attention". Director Bryan Singer denies sex claims 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z His views on this — call it “Germany first” — can be wrong without being disreputable. Opinion | Alternative for Germany is a Rorschach test for anyone watching the country 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Immunology became a vaguely disreputable backwater in cancer research. Review | A new book about cancer offers something rare: realistic hope 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Since then, the company has dismissed several workers in the U.S. and India for allegedly inappropriately accessing internal data that was being misused by disreputable merchants, these people said. Amazon, Amid Crackdown on Seller Scams, Fires Employees Over Data Leak 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Well, everyone knows that Mr. Trump projects his own disreputable traits and feelings onto those he considers his adversaries. Opinion | Mr. Trump’s put-downs are all projection 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Just a few decades ago, horror films were mostly considered disreputable and schlocky. The new horror film canon (and where to stream it) 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z In Germany, however, nostalgia is, for reasons as painful as they are obvious, still problematic, even presumptively disreputable. Opinion | Alternative for Germany is a Rorschach test for anyone watching the country 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s at that corner watering hole that Lee meets Jack, a dashing but vaguely disreputable character who, when she asks what he does, answers with a cryptic, “This and that. Mostly that.” Review | Melissa McCarthy is a revelation in her new film. And she’s not even the best thing about it. 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Fox News has seized on the increased stemming from the Kavanaugh showdown to push claims that used to be entirely disreputable even on the right. Fox News is turning Brett Kavanaugh into a symbol of white grievance 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Neither fairness nor balance requires journalists to report discredited and disreputable information. Falsehoods don’t merit impartiality 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In July, she proposed an overhaul of the department’s student loan oversight division that would cut an Obama-era debt relief program by $13 billion for students who claim to be cheated by disreputable schools. After Scaling Back Student Loan Regulations, Administration Tries to Stop State Efforts 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Guides earn handsome commissions from disreputable trekking operators by pushing for emergency evacuations in cases of mild acute mountain sickness and other illnesses, dissuading trekkers from contacting doctors or from trying less drastic measures. Near Everest’s slopes, a helicopter rescue fraud preys on trekkers 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z He clearly hopes site visitors might be inspired to reshape the future, once they delve into film’s half-forgotten, disreputable past. Nicolas Winding Refn’s new streaming service is scholarly about sleaze 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Kretz told me that he undertook the action to be fiscally responsible, to not let money flow to a researcher he found disreputable. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf Scientist? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Never mind that neither fairness nor balance requires us to report discredited and disreputable information. Falsehoods don’t merit impartiality 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But I suspect he’d be getting a more sympathetic hearing in some quarters if he was riding for a less disreputable and unlikeable team. Giro d'Italia 2018: stage 20 – live! 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z There may be the whiff of the disreputable about Pascal, but he defends the weak and the bullied — or at least seems to. Review | Did she fall for a serial killer? Thatâs the mystery driving the erotic thriller âBeast.â 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Monica dedicated her life to prayers for the salvation of her family, especially her disreputable and licentious son, Augustine. Perspective | What early Christians knew that modern Christians don’t: Women make great leaders 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z One whose career as a yoga instructor and social worker suddenly made her the equivalent of the mulatta’s disreputable mother, who gathers roots and practises hoodoo. No Cinderella: Margo Jefferson on the real Meghan Markle 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z But popular music has mostly been ignored, aside from the Pulitzers retroactively recognizing what Hajdu described as "disreputable forms and popular forms" including Hank Williams and Bob Dylan. Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize sparks lively — and at times snobby — conversations on the aesthetics of music 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z All that was previously trustworthy and reputable is now disreputable and untrustworthy, and vice versa. When Trump called Putin: You done good, Volodya 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z That said, if greater regulation tamps down disreputable practices and brings the cryptocurrency into the regulatory mainstream, the longer-term trend may only be upward. This week’s Bitcoin crash was all about fraud and regulation 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Last year, the FTC received a record 7.2 million complaints, and the calls were as disreputable as ever. How robocall moguls outwitted the government and completely wrecked the Do Not Call list 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z If they didn't do what they were supposed to do, then there is nothing disreputable about holding them to account. The Las Vegas Gunman Was Rich. Will His Wealth Go to the Victims? 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z The story was "false", said Mr Green, who described the allegations as "disreputable political smears" from a "tainted, untrustworthy... and discredited" officer. Did a police vendetta topple Damian Green? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z TO ALL appearances, this was a final disentangling of the disreputable connections between the church in southern Italy and organised crime. The Italian church is dissolving its links to the mob 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr Green responded to Mr Quick's assertions by accusing him of spreading "disreputable political smears", an attack that so infuriated Mr Lewis that he approached the former counter-terrorism chief to offer his support. 'Thousands' of porn images on MP's computer 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr Green said the allegations were "false", describing them as "disreputable political smears" and "amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination". Growing number of MPs under scrutiny 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Go far enough back in baseball’s history – into the game’s actual disreputable, exploitive, wildcatting past, not the shelf-stable official one – and the same story repeats itself one generation after another. Baseball no longer a supergiant but it is still the most American of sports 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z And the worldview you might call Polanski-ism, which winked at the use and abuse of teenagers, became disreputable and then generally condemned. Opinion | The ’70s and Us 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z I don’t remember any disreputable titles that glorified electrification and agriculture. Opinion | Baba Yaga on the Ganges 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z You may long for a more disreputable, less buttoned-up telling, but there is something about this one’s sleek, streamlined conventionality that feels both appropriate and pleasing. 'Professor Marston and the Wonder Women' is a disarming exploration of a superhero's kinky roots 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z His coarse use of language — reflecting his background of hanging out with disreputable sorts — and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. The media is busy creating a left-wing "threat" to balance out the racist right-wing hordes 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The idea of controlling weather is now regarded as a bit disreputable. The Air You Breathe Is Full of Surprises 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Or that he is simply preparing the ground for a disreputable, if familiar, political manoeuvre. Is Brexit an error? Now even Vote Leave’s chief is having doubts | Jonathan Freedland 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z An independent panel comprising three senior judges found on May 31 that Mike Tancred had exhibited “disreputable conduct” in his dealings with Fiona de Jong, but ruled that he was not guilty of bullying. Australian Olympic staffer apologizes for intimidating exec 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The history did not describe the facts behind the cases, only the sentence for the drug arrest: probation, on the condition that Ms. Moore “avoid injurious, immoral or vicious habits” and “persons of disreputable character.” The Personas of a 1970 Jane Doe in Harlem Come Into Focus 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z But this book’s focus is particularly laserlike — a whir of financial angst, disreputable Wall Street behavior and hang-in-there optimism about slogging through President Trump’s reign. Zingers and Groaners in 3 Books by Senators With Grander Ambitions 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But it added: “Mr. Tancred’s conduct amounted to disreputable conduct …” AOC media official Tancred guilty of “disreputable conduct” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z As a businessman, he distinguished himself as a disreputable con; he was spurned by the New York business community less for his cartoonish flamboyance than for his essential dishonesty, his meanness of character. Is the Comey Memo the Beginning of the End for Trump? 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z But “party” remained something of a disreputable concept, and a stable party system along American or British lines failed to develop. Analysis | Le Pen may lose the French elections. But that won’t mean more stability. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Ethics committees must draw up guidelines for distinguishing reputable from disreputable journals. Predatory journals: Beall's List is missed : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “He’s on a network that I think is kind of disreputable, and I think he’s better than that,” Ferguson says. Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The 31-1 vote felt like an exclamation point to Goodman — capping a decades-long effort to move the city beyond its somewhat disreputable past and win legitimacy as a professional sports town. Las Vegas beats the odds, and its own past, in landing the Raiders 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Some players’ records reflect abilities enhanced by acts of bad character — surreptitious resorts to disreputable chemistry that traduces sportsmanship. Opinion | Is the Baseball Hall of Fame a museum? Or is it a shrine? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z But most of the things that this disreputable law does are incredibly popular. Make Obamacare great again — call it Trumpcare 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Trump supporters closed their ears to the mainstream press and turned to disreputable news sources as proof that their preferred candidate was right. There is no voter fraud: But chasing truth in the age of Donald Trump’s big lies is almost pointless 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z This heartless agitation, once confined to fringe websites and disreputable talk-radio chatter, is now metastasizing into something much more sinister. Sandy Hook conspiracy watch: Four years after the massacre, lunatic ravings become even more sinister 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The royal family returns with a fresh perspective; Liam seeks solace in disreputable places. TV Picks for Sunday: ‘Secrets and Lies,’ Panthers at Seahawks 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z In recent decades, however, the area became notorious for bad traffic and disreputable nightclubs. 'Get off the square!': The unsubtle gentrification of Jakarta's old town 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z This is problematic because Facebook would have to manipulate the algorithm to make it less likely you would see something from a site categorized as disreputable. Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The campaign of his rival was not that different, and we got something disreputable from too much of the press at the same time. Give Donald Trump a chance 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Severe price fluctuations in the carbon credits have stalled investments, disreputable climate change projects have undermined the credibility of plans, and the public has become distrustful that companies are genuinely reducing their carbon footprints. Pollution Accord Is Set for Global Flights, but Tasks Remain 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z So that’s why I — the dirty, disreputable insomniac — took matters into my own hands. The Insomnia Machine 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Doe says Brown badly mishandled the case, including by taking blood, urine and hair specimens but failing to perform the proper tests or sending the samples to disreputable labs that then botched the testing. Lawsuit says Brown protected trustee’s son in drugging case 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z But they would need to be respectable rather than disreputable, and run a campaign that accepted guardrails and gatekeepers rather than gleefully destroying them. Could the liberal left field its own Trump? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z At a time when English literature was dominated by sober social realists, she played with disreputable genres – gothic horror, science fiction, fairytale – and gave free rein to the fantastic and the surreal. Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The fact that he hectored the established parties from the disreputable margins was good enough. Why I Will Never Vote Third Party Again 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Charles Grob told me, “Some of these guys were leading disreputable lives and they became radically transformed—responsible pillars of their community.” The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z The late Christopher Hitchens denounced her for what he called a range of failings, including her acceptance of awards and donations from disreputable figures such as the Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. Mother Teresa’s Canonization Advances Pope Francis’ Agenda 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z From Joe Begos, who has emerged from the festival circuit as a leading light among low-budget genre filmmakers working from a love of a certain kind of grubby, willfully disreputable storytelling, comes “The Mind’s Eye.” Indie Focus: Summer gets wild with Next Fest, 'The Mind's Eye' and 'Multiple Maniacs' 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Such prosecutions sometimes hung on the testimony of disreputable witnesses or were overseen by beleaguered detectives and prosecutors. Brooklyn prosecutorial unit has unusual mission: Setting convicts free 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Some Republicans want to go further than disavowing obviously disreputable characters like Duke. The Politics of Disorder 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes good advice comes awkwardly expressed by persons of disreputable character. The Old—Heave-Ho 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “Don’t blame Trump at all for not wanting this judge, who is a member of this disreputable organization, from presiding over his case. He could never be impartial.” As other GOP leaders squirm at Trump’s stance on judge, Corey Stewart applauds 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Much of it was cruel, some of it disreputable. Tech Mogul Helped Hulk Hogan Take Down Gawker 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Now they had become culturally disreputable, reactionary outlaws, decidedly unstylish in what they wore and drank and in how they played; they were looked on as lesser beings. This Is Where the Term 'Limousine Liberal' Comes From 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The New England Patriots are so disreputable and untrustworthy at this point, they should change their name to the East Coast Raiders. Tom Brady’s Deflategate Suspension Reinstated 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Finally, what is described in this article, though unethical, immoral, disgraceful, detestable, demeaning, disreputable, etc.; it is perfectly legal. A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Records show it opened in 1576, among the disreputable taverns and tanneries of Shoreditch, but it is not known for sure which plays were performed there. Shakespeare's birthday: Where can you get close to the Bard? - BBC News 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It was an ibex, though in profile it looked like a slightly disreputable unicorn. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Thankfully, we were able to locate a disreputable travel agent, a large man with a taste for loud polo shirts who went by the name of Obai. Welcome to the land that no country wants | Jack Shenker 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z It features a “disreputable” young woman whose 3-year-old son is found dead in a neighbor’s well. 'Sincerely yours, Harper Lee': A reclusive author's words to a faithful high school teacher 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The last time this happened to the lurid, fast-paced, gleefully disreputable world of comics, in the late 1980s, the adoption of adult themes and situations turned out to be a blind alley. Framed! Meet the creators shaking up modern comics 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z "People thought there was something a bit disreputable about young women wearing khaki and getting their hands dirty." Dad's Army film spotlights role of women in the war - BBC News 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z She characterized them as a disreputable crowd, none of the members of which ever looked neat or clean-cut. Excerpts from the Pete Seeger FBI files 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z According to the Duerson family, that confrontation, and at least one other scene in the film that portrays Duerson as disreputable, did not happen. Dave Duerson’s Family Says ‘Concussion’ Film Smears Him 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Rent-seeking is what the political class rewards when it is not brooding about why people think the political class is disreputable. A threat to freedom of speech at the Supreme Court 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The source of Maya's anxiety is a rapidly mutating pestilence that affects Dante's disreputable neighbors. Horror film 'Condemned' has a bad virus not worth catching 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In his first game back, he drew further negative attention to himself by making disreputable comments about women and showing no semblance of remorse. The Dallas Cowboys should punish Greg Hardy, but of course they won't 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The second phase of elections is being held today in India's most intriguing and - until fairly recently - its most lawless and disreputable state. Why Bihar elections is fascinating politics - BBC News 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He implies something disreputable about his colleagues’ desire to expand beyond the company’s traditional focus on bonds. Bill Gross, Honorary Millennial 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The narrator, Jin-man, is equipped with a literal mind and a disconcerting lack of curiosity, and lives at “the institution,” a disreputable mental ward that doubles as a sock-packaging plant. South Korea’s Dark, Funny Fiction 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Trevor Noah capped off his first week as host of "The Daily Show" Thursday night with a segment comparing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump to a variety of disreputable African leaders and dictators. Why Trevor Noah thinks Donald Trump could be 'America's first African president' 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z While horror filmmaking can give vent to underlying anxieties of the cultural collective, a psychic safety valve, the genre is also typically seen as something disreputable. Wes Craven was a master of genre and reinvention 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The notion of a speculative bubble was seen for a long time as disreputable in finance circles, but it is gradually gaining acceptance. Rising Anxiety That Stocks Are Overpriced 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a Clinton surrogate was on CNN yesterday trying to help the candidate by linking Sanders, her chief intraparty rival, to a disreputable figure on the Republican side: Sen. McCaskill’s Cynic Cure 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Judges like Roberts consider it virtuous to refuse to closely examine and forthrightly invalidate laws that, like the one Lochner overturned, arise from disreputable motives and have unjust consequences. The 110 year-old case that still inspires Supreme Court debates 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z “I doubt I’m alone in being wary of accepting one of Trump’s claims based on blind faith in his credibility,” he said, calling Trump “disreputable and deceitful” in an email. Team Trump: No, we didn’t hire actors for the launch 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z In America, where “we the people” are sovereign and majority rule is celebrated, constraining the sovereign is frequently, but incorrectly, considered morally ambiguous, even disreputable. The 588-year path to limited government 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z A disreputable psychic latches onto this customer, promising aid and urging a follow-up visit. Criminal Psychics See a Clear Path to Profits in the Desperate 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Bohannon and his collaborators designed a ridiculous clinical trial, data-mined the outcomes and reported in a somewhat disreputable journal the “statistically significant” findings. And Chocolate Cures Cancer! Lessons For Biotech Investors From Made-Up Data 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The process can be over-idealized, though, in a way that suggests that any other route would be cheap or disreputable; like some ill-thought-out elopement, rather than a proper wedding. Will Ireland Say “Yes” to Same-Sex Marriage? 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Perhaps other sports will come to seem, like boxing, a little weird and a little disreputable. Floyd Mayweather’s Longest Fight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z His mother had left his father and was leading a “disreputable life” in Dallas, according to the book. Reform school stories: Not much change in 124 years 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Lawyers for six former colleagues now on trial call Walker a drunk, disreputable police officer and unreliable witness. Corrupt officer says drug squad lied, stole, beat people 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy in his grand, stately home, the disreputable gap-toothed rogue spots a chance to escape financial ruin when a rare Goya canvas goes missing after a lethal robbery. Review: Depp indulges inner clown in charmless ‘Mortdecai’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Bit by bit, examples of the disreputable treatment of Department of Veterans Affairs whistleblowers continue to drop. Some VA whistleblowers get relief from retaliation 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The notion that U.S. support for despotic, disreputable regimes ends up fuelling radicalism is by now a familiar argument. Can Corruption Be Eradicated? 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The movie, ideally cast, preserved all the disreputable qualities of its heroine, the delicious ambiguities of good boy and bad boy in her two lovers. What Is It About Gone With the Wind That Still Enchants Us? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z That represents a risk, the company acknowledges in the filing: If partners “mislead loan applicants or are engaged in disreputable behavior, our reputation may be harmed, and we may face liability.” Is OnDeck Capital the Next Generation of Lender or Boiler Room? 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Sites, no matter their pedigree, look pretty much the same in your news feed — just a headline and a caption — making disreputable sites harder to detect. Fake news sites are using Facebook to spread Ebola panic 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The charges against the cleric convey the unpleasant suggestion that priestly vestments provided cover for disreputable transactions. Of Virtue and Vice, and a Vatican Priest 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Poachers routinely kill protective orangutan mothers, kidnap the juveniles, and sell them to disreputable zoos or traders on the illegal pet market. An Orangutan Learns to Fish 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Was it suddenly disreputable for men and women to read poetry together? New freedom of cafe culture in Kabul is threatened after police raid 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Opposition to the E.U. is a worthy cause that unfortunately has been embraced by, and might become the property of, political parties tainted by disreputable motives and members. George F. Will: The roar of Europe’s protest vote Although there are many caring employees, the more disreputable people tend to rise to the top. V.A. Chief Resigns in Face of Furor on Delayed Care 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z “Harvey Milk was a very disreputable man and used his charm and power to prey on young boys with emotional problems and drug addiction,” reads the AFA’s press release. Anti-gay group calls for boycott of Harvey Milk stamp 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z This is why such laws are presumptively disreputable and usually unconstitutional. State laws on borrowed time According to Amnesty International, America executes more people than any country except China, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia—disreputable peers for the land of the free. Capital punishment: The slow death of the death penalty 2014-04-24T15:01:05Z The child of what was considered a disreputable marriage and an even more disgraceful divorce, Roy was expected to have suitably modest ambitions. Arundhati Roy, the Not-So-Reluctant Renegade 2014-03-05T10:00:02Z Some NSA officials later described the programme as "disreputable if not outright illegal", the documents show. US spies targeted Martin Luther King 2013-09-26T03:41:18Z Harvey Milk was a very disreputable man and used his charm and power to prey on young boys with emotional problems and drug addiction. Anti-gay group calls for boycott of Harvey Milk stamp 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z More than eight of Ghana's top lawyers appeared for him at his trial and he spent almost a year in one of Ghana's disreputable prisons before he was set free. Kofi Awoonor: Remembering a Ghanaian poet 2013-09-23T19:09:22Z The first rule for any serious writer is to agitate the contentious and embrace the disreputable. Racist “patriots” want me dead: I dared criticize “the troops” 2013-09-09T23:30:00Z So instead of a climate of pervasive fear, there will be a chilling effect at the margins of political discourse, mostly affecting groups and opinions considered disreputable already. Op-Ed Columnist: Your Smartphone Is Watching You 2013-06-08T18:30:01Z Their argument is based on a law that prohibits registered names that are disparaging, scandalous, contemptuous or disreputable. San Francisco releases up-and-down kicker Akers 2013-03-07T04:39:03Z He will denounce Osborne's mendacious dividing of "strivers" from "skivers" for the disreputable dishonesty it is. Be bold, Labour, and expose Osborne's skivers v strivers lie 2012-12-06T21:00:07Z One may describe campaigning on such topics as disreputable if one wishes, but Labour had better be ready for it. Lynton Crosby: no point in being polite 2012-11-19T21:30:01Z Following the Cartagena scandal, the agency issued a tighter code of conduct for agents travelling overseas, including a ban on drinking while on duty, visiting "disreputable establishments" and bringing foreigners into hotel rooms. US Secret Service man 'suicide' 2012-11-02T09:43:35Z Tom Diwai Vigus, a Queen Alexander butterfly expert, told Radio Australia that many “disreputable” companies are circumventing regulations governing logging, further eroding the butterfly’s habitat. World's Largest Butterfly Threatened by Shrinking Habitat and Deforestation 2012-08-10T14:15:36.607Z This was the precursor of vaudeville -- a wild and disreputable scene, but patronized by practically everybody. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Boxers on Broadway 2012-06-21T17:49:29Z The papers are busy debating a planned day of industrial action by doctors in June - and the reaction is particularly angry. it is "disreputable, shabby and just plain wrong." Papers angry over doctors strike 2012-05-31T05:15:24Z It commences at Victoria Street, in the midst of what was formerly a disreputable thoroughfare, but is now a common center for the Great Northern, the London, Chatham and Dover, and the Metropolitan lines. 50 Years Ago: First Gamma Ray Satellite 2012-05-02T12:15:00.427Z Donahoe says he doesn’t believe that getting a federal agency like the post office involved in shipping alcohol across state lines is in any way disreputable. Why Can't the Post Office Ship Booze? 2012-04-30T20:05:18Z For the Boy Bishop was originally a part of the Feast of Fools and the Feast of Fools had an ancient and disreputable ancestry in the Roman Saturnalia. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The person who had arrived in the chaise, proved to be a somewhat disreputable clergyman from a distant parish. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z There is something about this occasion as usually conducted which seems to invite coarse characters and disreputable conduct. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z The King is seldom around; his disreputable workers look as if they had come out of a tenth century nightmare. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z He carried with him a layman named John, one-eyed and one-handed, of thoroughly disreputable character, who boasted that he could recognize a heretic at sight. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Occasionally a less disreputable but almost equally confusing plan was adopted, in swearing a portion of the witnesses in the presence of the accused, while examining them in his absence. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z I had carried Balfame through several gastric attacks, caused by his disreputable life, with as much professional enthusiasm as if he had been the best of husbands. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Elizabeth's favourite admirer, at that period, happened to be the Marquis d'Epinay, a French refugee, remarkable for his fascinating manners and disreputable character. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z In this heyday of her prosperity, Emma hunted up her aged and disreputable mother, bestowed on her the name "Mrs. Cadogan," and settled a rich pension on her. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z It is then that the disreputable shipowner steps in and purchases her. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z The front door was standing wide open, with the disreputable and tell-tale air of a reveller who has been out all night in evening dress. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z One would think that in order to prove a certain revolutionary movement powerless and contemptible, you had only to show that its leaders were themselves contemptible and disreputable persons. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z It’s a worthy goal, but, as with previous reforms in this disreputable industry, it faces long odds. Editorial: Racehorses to the Slaughter 2012-03-27T03:54:12Z These, offering in their form disreputable points for reprobation, were found to be a sufficiently appropriate symbol of the Devil. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Ling kicked open the door, and they found within an old man, very disreputable and dirty, clothed in rags, sound asleep before the glowing embers of a charcoal fire. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Never had such a disreputable sight presented itself to the eyes of Janet Sheepshanks. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z He looked dissipated---nothing less than disreputable, some said; and he seemed aware of it, for he sat erect, gazing straight before him, and declining to see any one. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Those who have preferred British jurisdiction to the unendurable state of their own country are mostly respectable men; but, of course, there is another and a disreputable party. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z Five hours later he trudged wearily into the town, conscious that he presented a deplorable and disreputable appearance. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z The boy's dress was rich and expensive, even to his fine silk stockings and tan shoes; but the umbrella looked old and disreputable. Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies 2012-03-17T02:01:04.773Z The rough life of the past few days and his immersion had indeed given him a disreputable appearance. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z I have not gambled or done anything disreputable. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z You say that our enemies lived and loved; but think how unworthy of divine rulers was their mode of life, how immoral, how imprudent, how disreputable, how savage, how lustful, how un-Chris-tian! Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z There was one instance in which a disreputable, out-at-elbows, dissipated lawyer had defied him to his teeth—had unblushingly defrauded him by threatening exposure. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z So common has this practice become that it is not now considered disreputable. Monopolies and the People 2012-03-12T03:00:23.687Z Then they came to a very rough and disreputable neighbourhood, abounding in low grog shops, in which European sailors were courting Yellow Jack, by drinking poisonous rum. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z It was wearing a disreputable, greasy blue uniform with not a few ragged rents in it. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Ladies will learn with approval that it is thought improper, and even disreputable, for a man to be single. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z He says that he will generally do the right thing; he will be eminently respectable; he will not sink to very low or disreputable courses. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z She had been dowdy and disreputable when she had taken them out on the first trip. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z The wish “to ‘decriminalize’ disreputable behavior that ‘harms no one’ — and thus remove the ultimate sanction the police can employ to maintain neighborhood order — is, we think, a mistake,” Mr. Wilson and Mr. Kelling wrote. James Q. Wilson, 1931-2012: James Q. Wilson Dies at 80; Originated ?Broken Windows? Policing Strategy 2012-03-03T03:13:15Z Pro sports were considered a disreputable profession until well into the 20th century: athletes were supposed to play for the love of the activity, the camaraderie and the health benefits. When Game Changers Become Name Changers 2012-03-02T03:02:26Z She must own to stolen meetings, to underhand practices, to things disreputable; she must proclaim, maid as she was, her love. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Yet these disreputable details are only mosaic decorations on the fundamental background of solid, scientific lying about the Soviet Republic and its guiding party. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z The store fronts which loomed indistinctly through the darkness were not the same ones she had passed before; surely those others had not been so shabby and disreputable looking. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House 2012-02-27T03:00:12.427Z She is not exactly disreputable, I am told; I only wish she were!--No, For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z The fact that any occupation or business is really legitimate seems often to stimulate the operations of these disreputable persons. The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines 2012-02-18T03:00:17.387Z A very disreputable lot our friends looked, too: as unkempt and rough as the original pirates might have been. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z No two sets of people could be more dissimilar; the one being as respectable as the other was disreputable. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z Still, even now an uncle is disreputable enough. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z According to this gentleman, an unbeliever is, to a certain extent, a disreputable person. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The testimony of a man who regarded Thomas Jefferson as a disreputable person, as to the character of any- body, is utterly without value. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z In the excerpts from Ctesias some harem intrigues are recorded, in which he played a disreputable part. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Together they sprawled shoulder to shoulder on the disreputable old fur rug in front of the living-room fire. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z As they entered by the back gate, Ruth and Agnes rushed out upon the rear porch, having caught sight of Tommy’s disreputable figure. The Corner House Girls How they moved to Milton, what they found, and what they did 2012-02-03T03:00:26.090Z She never wore an apron, and, in her stained and tattered dress, her appearance was disreputable even for a charwoman. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z Indeed, I doubt not but we cut sufficiently disreputable figures. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z The lawyer nearly shuddered at this cheerful, barefaced mention of his lordship's disreputable profession. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The man was very ragged as well as very dirty, and altogether disreputable, so far as appearance went, while it is probable that in several respects his character left a good deal to be desired. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z At the “Royal Oak” a very disreputable and stony road goes off to the left. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Through the quarter to which all that is disreputable in Europe drifts, where any sort of virtue is exposed to damage beyond repair, she had carried her respectability and emerged more respectable than ever. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z She might be a royal princess for all I care; I say she would still be a disreputable woman. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z The disreputable old man was in some way intimate with one or two members of the Government. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:21.457Z Instead, they had gone into a disreputable part of the city with the boy, and had there met two men believed by the negro to be thieves. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z It was undoubtedly accounted disreputable, for a widow to appear in public, after the recent funeral of her husband, with locks unpulled and cheeks unscratched. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z I'm a respectable shipowner and grain merchant, you're a pair of disreputable skulking miners, pretending to be sailors, and you've shipped aboard here on purpose to murder and rob me. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z When an individual begins to rave about his honor, we may be pretty sure he is about to do some irrational, most likely some disreputable deed. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Mrs. Drake continued, waddling to the mantelpiece and flicking a disreputable blowfly from one of the vases. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Rats or other creeping, crawling, things seemed to be working in the disreputable walls, for there was a continuous scratching noise, but there were no other sounds. The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf 2012-01-20T03:00:10.933Z She wrote to the Era on 13th June, protesting passionately against a report that was being circulated to the effect that she had long been known in London as a disreputable character. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z They wore their shirt-tails out like Chinamen on the long and dusty hikes, and their service hats tilted at a dozen disreputable angles. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z In the days of Slavery they herded together like animals; but now it is considered disreputable and wrong to live together without being married. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z As a leader of the rightist libertarian movement for decades, he has attracted some disreputable followers, including racists and anti-Semites. Letter From Washington: A Candidate Republicans Must Handle Very Carefully 2012-01-01T18:30:09Z The misery he suffered from his wife's disreputable life did not diminish as time went on; the gulf which parted them grew wider and deeper. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z I left off drinking, but not gambling, and ultimately I became connected with a number of disreputable persons, among whom was your prisoner Sparkes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Ours is a marriage unlicensed by the priest, but I know of nothing disreputable in it, or I could never have tolerated it for an hour. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z In many cases it is wise to use pigskin or morocco on the back, though if this is done, the cloth sides and the boards themselves may become disreputable before the back is worn. Library Bookbinding 2011-12-24T03:07:58.950Z Now he settled back again in deep disgust as Harkins addressed the disreputable visitor. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z For this reason she never would have endured to live with her son; his expensive tastes, and, yet more, Clementina's extravagance and disreputable caprices enraged her, and would have embittered every moment of her life. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Compose your battalions not of disreputable men, but of citizens imbued with the principles of the Republic, and closely linked with its prosperity. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z We shall ... but we don't wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us ... we look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonored and disorderly old age. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z These profane comedians pervert the noble use of their ancient art by presenting nothing which is not openly disreputable and scandalous. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z In less than a year from that time he had enticed her daughter into a disreputable house in another part of the district. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z I found the Dublin cats a rather disreputable gang. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z So saying, he led the way to a dirty, disreputable inn situated in a narrow street leading off the quay. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z You will also find the characteristic of indecency which belongs to the sexual act in these vagaries, only that it is therein magnified to the disreputable. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Under the management of an agent, the character of the tenants in the courts changed rapidly, and the people who took possession added to the disreputable character of the Fourth Ward. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z If you did want to pay for music, the “Napster” name sounded slightly disreputable. Napster Is Dead: How the Closed Service Changed Music 2011-12-02T17:05:32Z Suspension is a disreputable attitude for the human body, whatever way it is brought about, yet I doubt this maltreated anonymity was in better case than our hero. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Her astonishment was genuine, and excusable; few more disreputable figures ever greeted a lady's eye. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z The crowd had been recruited from a less desirable element since its advent in the streets of London, and this reinforcement was disposed to show something of its more disreputable side. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z "I give it up," muttered the operative, shrugging his arms into a threadbare coat and shambling out of the disreputable rooming house which passed for home. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The Georges rose to great respectability in the third person, and sank to a disreputable level in the fourth. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Here is young Miss Kitcat with Captain Mann who for all he was so disreputable was nevertheless tantamount to the success of the Cotillon. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z We allow children to play after school hours, and on Saturdays; but for grown-up, serious-minded men and women to want to play would be almost as disreputable as for them to want to get drunk. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z I consider him a most objectionable, a most disreputable, young man—not so very young either; he will never see forty again, unless I am much mistaken. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z "Loose the chain," said Miss Oliver, and to their vast astonishment the dog walked up to her, wagging his disreputable tail, and crouching down, licked her hands. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Their nocturnal, and therefore disreputable habits, with our dislike for the blood-sucking propensity of a large specie, the vampire, has kept our interest in these otherwise harmless and clean creatures at rather freezing point. Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences 2011-11-24T03:00:42.240Z Here the tenements were not only extremely small, apparently consisting of five or six rooms at most, they were also of disreputable appearance. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z In my judgment there is nothing more disreputable, or which interferes more with the proper discharge of public duty, than this hanging around the skirts of power begging for offices for friends. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The women one speaks of as being in cases are always more or less disreputable. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z An old cripple—a disreputable looking vagabond—was seen lurking about the grounds the night she was lost. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z It is the weapon of the criminal population and the disreputable, and it is too often drawn in street broils and for vendetta purposes. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z If an immoral tendency has been attributed to the Assemblies of Ḥarírí it is because the author does not conceal his admiration for this unprincipled and thoroughly disreputable scamp. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Reconstruction, measured by the results of five years, was a failure, being a confused medley of ignorant negro voters, disfranchised whites, disreputable carpet-baggers, and corrupt legislatures. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z To conclude—let nothing induce you to give a letter of introduction to any person whose moral character is disreputable. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z He was generally considered by the men with whom he associated a good fellow for an ally in a disreputable pinch, and a blackguard when the pinch was over. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z Of course I took it for granted that such a disreputable article, which evidently belonged to a woman, was not your property. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z He is now settled in his arm-chair with his very disreputable pipe, and has been telling me his experiences. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z At the inn where they resolved to stay, they were mistaken for thieves, so disreputable was their appearance, and, no doubt, trouble would have befallen them had not some English merchants vouched for their respectability. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z At ten o’clock, just as newsboys were raucously crying the latest extras, a taxicab stopped before a dingy establishment in a squalid and disreputable section of the lower East Side. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z And again: our whole consular system is radically wrong, disreputable, and injurious to our character and 231interests. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z By supper time the cottage yard presented a decidedly disreputable appearance. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z It was pure wickedness, for he did not care for it himself, but gave it to the poor alley cats to devour; for he patronized them and had many disreputable pensioners. Daisy the autobiography of a cat 2011-10-25T02:00:24.887Z We turned our coat-collars up at one side only, and then, with dented hats worn raffishly, and our hands in our pockets, we looked disreputable enough for all practical purposes in twilight. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z At the man's words Brent's eyes had flashed a swift glance over his disreputable garments. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z On leaving the table he swore by life and death that he would go to a disreputable house. The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) 2011-10-21T02:00:20.960Z His manner had just the shade of admiring familiarity which to some men seems admissible to the pretty daughter of a disreputable old innkeeper. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z And not only does the hero find himself immensely touched by the tragedy of the disreputable woman,—which is, after all, in certain cases plausible enough,—he burns to introduce his fianc�e to her. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z And I have mingled with disreputable men here, but not to lift them up. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z At length they passed around behind the sawmill and Brent saw that a light showed dimly in the window of a disreputable log shack that stood upon the edge of a deep ravine. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z The later poet was almost as unfortunate as the earlier, and almost as disreputable, but he had a great share of poetical and not a small one of critical power. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z It is quite amusing to hear how seriously they rehearse the virtuous acts of the ancestors, carefully refraining from making any allusion to disreputable acts of any kind. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z To gain the means of subsistence nothing remained for them but to engage in the petty traffic of the peddler or the disreputable business of the money-lender. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z Marius now began to perceive that he had connected himself with a disreputable set, and finding his popularity on the wane, he repudiated his new political allies as suddenly as he had joined with them. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z I've been robbed!" he cried, passionately, "and this is what comes of trying to help my nephew enter a disreputable line of business. The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z All the explorers looked rather disreputable, but Mr. McKay in particular was little better than a walking scarecrow. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z Foreigners can have no idea of the extent to which they carry on their disreputable trade, including in their ranks some of the highest Brahmins of the country. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z "I trust you let him know that the Underground Steam Company is a stock jobbing, disreputable concern with no financial status." Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z While these accusations were hanging over him, an old case of manslaughter came to light; the victim having been an aged invalid, whom K�so, in a disreputable night brawl, had cruelly maltreated. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z “Come for you—come for you,” Mrs. Church repeated, looking down at the relics of our little feast, on which she seemed somehow to shed at once the lurid light of the disreputable. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Nine years from this time a most unfavorable report of the place was sent to the Government and from this report the picture is called up of a wretched, unclean and disreputable community. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z They are brought up to this disreputable profession from their infancy. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z What could I do, when I found such base attempts made to destroy my reputation by the most disreputable characters? Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The bull to be baited was of the black Galloway breed, and had been purchased under peculiar circumstances, by a few disreputable characters. Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting 2011-09-30T02:00:19.420Z Charles, am I to understand that a nephew of mine allows himself to be seen in a disreputable resort such as—— Charles. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:15.237Z You know how she goes on, Mr. Herrick, as if she were actually disreputable, instead of being really the best of girls. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The practice referred to is a most disreputable one, and beseems a people not far above the level of a Nomad tribe. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z Names of a most disreputable appearance are Swearing and Gambling, yet both, when properly inquired into, turn out to be the very synonyms of respectability. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z The air was so heavy with tobacco fumes that the Phantom could not distinguish their features clearly, but he got the impression that they were a disreputable lot. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z One was Chang Chee, the keeper of the disreputable Chinese dive on Doyers street, whom Jimmie had noticed the night before, and the other was a much younger man—a boy, in fact. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z He was afraid to come there, of course, into my disreputable company. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z These disreputable rascals were desperate; they had done something calculated to send them to the penitentiary for a term of years, and would try their best to avoid punishment. The Outdoor Chums on the Lake Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island 2011-09-22T02:00:23.407Z "A bad, disreputable man to whom neither you nor mother would speak," said Sam. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z I’m not afraid of you or of any of your disreputable acquaintances. The Motor Maids Across the Continent 2011-09-17T02:00:31.140Z “Why is he mixed up with that disreputable old Chink?” Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z But the men disgorged from its disreputable depths were friends to that house. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z It would be doing his Majesty injustice to suppose that he ever intended his representative in Canada to procure men for his galleys in so disreputable a fashion. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z But at last the lady owl said to her lord— “My lord, this nest is getting quite disreputable—we must have a new one this spring.” Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Why he does so is not quite clear, since surely it is the essential thing about a disreputable woman that her evenings are not free for visits to the Colosseum. Henry James 2011-09-05T02:00:22.877Z It was not the old, half-dazed, disreputable Lemon who stepped into the room, but a young man handsomely dressed and evidently very wide awake and in the best of spirits. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z “Hello,” he said at length, in a pleasant voice that contrasted strangely with his disreputable appearance. The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z All the way to Arad I was indulging myself with the hope that if I was very civil to the Countess she would not give me away by revealing the secret of this disreputable adventure. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z I am not dirty and disreputable now, nor is my fur matted. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z Above high-water mark Mgatweli Police Camp and the home of its commanding officer, picturesque still, but no longer disreputable, rose like a Phoenix from its ashes. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z There is a fine old brick tavern still standing in a New England seaboard town, and now doing service as a rather disreputable road house. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z He met only one white man that he knew, in a narrow, disreputable alley. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z A pair of old gray trousers and a disreputable brown sweater formed most of his costume. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z I am not much taken with the idea of mixing up in a corporation that has as disreputable a record as the Traction Company. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z They had been lived in before, and left in a ragged and disreputable condition. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z We were driven to the harbor in the same disreputable taxicab which had brought us to the consulate a few hours before. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z Now Rip, the kennel terrier of the Carkenny pack, was as game and eke as disreputable a little cur as ever ran with hounds. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z In the cellar stood Bob, disreputable in his old clothes and adorned with dust and cobwebs, a lighted lantern in one hand. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z Not disreputable characters either—not of Drury Lane or Haymarket distinction, but of that class who use the columns of the newspapers to advertise their matrimonial propensities. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z “Now what?” asked Dan when the Vagabond had been made fast in her new quarters at the end of a file of disreputable canal boats. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z The Ohio country was just emerging from the famous period which made the name "river-man" synonymous with all that was disreputable. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z But at that period the profession of letters was still regarded as more or less disreputable. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Kewpie presented a disreputable appearance for several days, but was given due honor. The Turner Twins 2011-08-28T02:00:36.990Z Now, if any one will notice the more disreputable of these beer-houses, they will observe that there are generally a lot of unkempt, rough-looking dogs about them. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Presently the carpenter returned in a disreputable tub of a dory and the tender was towed away. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z In addition to this, there was a fairly big thaw pool and much miry ground near by, so that the inhabitants were generally covered with mud and very disreputable to look at. Antarctic Penguins A Study of Their Social Habits 2011-08-03T02:00:14.143Z I have never used my influence with him for evil; and when he has proposed I should be his agent in a disreputable affair, I have always declined. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z The name of parasite is now a disreputable one; but among the ancients we find the word parasite used as something sacred, and nearly equivalent to the title Messmate. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z If you have high ideals in business, if you achieve success on a big scale, mark well, you will be a subject of attacks, of lies, of malice, of envy, of disreputable competition. Think A Book for To-day 2011-07-27T02:00:35.180Z In this strange profession she excited much astonishment—went through some singular, but not disreputable adventures—and earned considerable sums of money, which her husband spent in drink and profligacy. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Family playing or club playing, professedly for money, is held to be disreputable. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The doctrine that it is disreputable in the poor to have children, is salutary, no doubt—but it requires to be enforced under limitation. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z As might be expected, some adventurers, robbers, and people of a generally disreputable character joined the community to cloak their villainous deeds in mystery and religion. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z I would rather be defeated honorably, squarely and honestly than to be successful with a tarnished character obtained through disreputable methods. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z The girl's father, under the influence of an evil stepmother, agrees to sell his daughter to the richest and also the most disreputable man in the village. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z And among the characters he could introduce a disreputable fat old knight with attendants, and could call them Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, and Nym. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z New staff would be given the cold shoulder until they'd proved themselves to be "thoroughly disreputable" so their colleagues could trust them. Special Report: Inside Rebekah Brooks' News of the World 2011-07-16T11:01:02Z She told the truth about Pompilia: how she had been purchased by her several months before birth from a disreputable laundry-woman, partly to please her husband, partly to defraud the rightful heirs. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z This protection was uncertain, meager, and often ineffective for the reason that there were disreputable publishers in plenty who paid no heed to the "courtesy of the trade" but reprinted whatsoever they thought would sell. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Of the hundreds who had jostled each other in the first run, a disreputable few survived, pulling up after that last gallop. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Lascar Sall, a rather disreputable female, well known in the neighbourhood, would, they told me, smoke five shillings-worth of opium a day. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z He was pledged to a worn and disreputable pair of the pattern known as Romeos—relics of his bachelor days. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z There was a great buzzing and hissing on the road as a disreputable looking Ford came speeding down the hill. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z A disreputable sinner, and how Jesus dealt with her. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z Mr Johnson said the police watchdog must hold the Met to account over the "disgraceful, disreputable episode". 'Prosecute Met officers' over NoW 2011-07-08T16:26:07Z The girl's father was a disreputable horse-and-turf-tout and betting man in a small way in a distant county; the girl herself the worthy offspring of such a father—handsome, bold, unprincipled. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Then he planted his disreputable Romeos firmly on the turf, waggled the rusty mid-iron a few times, pressed the blade lightly behind the ball, and attempted that most difficult of all performances—the chip shot. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z Of course I believe him to be a coward as well as a disreputable character. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Here she was, anyhow, beneath “Gipsy Steve’s” poverty-stricken and highly disreputable roof, and the neighbours looked at her askance, as in duty bound. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z His eye had hardly healed, his face was covered with a three weeks' beard, and altogether he was a disreputable looking creature. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z All the small ranchers and disreputable stragglers about that immediate vicinity were of one opinion in regard to the new sheep-man. Hope Hathaway A Story of Western Ranch Life 2011-07-07T02:00:27.303Z See what a disorderly house she kept; I will not say disreputable, for God forbid that I should take away any woman's character. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z And this disreputable adventurer had the power to hold a sword over Wagram’s head indefinitely. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z I have been climbing the mountains after markhôr, hence a tolerably disreputable old Khaki suit, and a battered and general air of not having been to bed all night.” The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z “We are not going to encourage anything so disreputable as that betting mania of yours,” said Ethel. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z “We are like a party of disreputable gipsies,” said Miss Anstrade, with a look at Hume, whose boots were torn, and whose outward appearance was scarcely an improvement on the many-patched garments of Klaas. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Nothing then remains but to have recourse to the ticket-brokers, who carry on their disreputable commerce in the streets or at the wine-shops. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z |
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