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