(a.) Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Liberal Democrat investigation was carried out by Alistair Webster QC, who found it was not appropriate to charge Rennard with acting in a way that had brought the party into disrepute., which could have led to his expulsion expelled from the party.
(2) A senior Tory has accused Margaret Hodge , the Labour chair of the public accounts committee, of bringing parliament into disrepute by being “abusive and bullying” towards senior HSBC executives when they appeared before her panel.
(3) Good-looking, talented and wealthy, they exist in a bubble of ego that allows them to embark on one-night stands, lay waste to cities with their gizmos, and generally act disreputably in the name of safeguarding our freedom.
(4) Only PCs running Windows can be infected but the CryptoLocker malware can be hidden in any executable attachment or sneak on to your computer via a driveby download from a disreputable or infected website.
(5) Malema is in a titanic struggle with Zuma, who once declared him a future president, and has been brought before the ANC's disciplinary committee on charges of bringing the party into disrepute.
(6) The LMA responded saying: "Such a commentary is inflammatory, can only tend to bring the game into disrepute and further widens the gap between those that reputedly lead the game and those that find employment and build their careers within it."
(7) After these disreputable cases, it is time to open a cleaner chapter in UK-Russia relations.
(8) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(9) Sources insisted he was "neither influential nor important" and on Monday the 63-year-old was suspended from the party for bringing it into disrepute following footage that appears to show him buying drugs days after being grilled by the Treasury select committee over the bank's disastrous performance.
(10) Public life has become impossible with these public floggings [and Hodge] is now bringing the committee into disrepute.” Lyons said that it was “absolutely right” that Hodge should ask demanding questions but said the business world is not always as black and white as she sees it.
(11) We want to get games into him so he is fit and ready for us.” Rule E3(1) states that: “A participant shall at all times act in the best interests of the game and shall not act in any manner which is improper or brings the game into disrepute or use any one, or a combination of, violent conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour.” Rule E3(2) states that: “In the event of any breach of Rule E3(1) including a reference to any one or more of a person’s ethnic origin, colour, race, nationality, face, gender, sexual orientation or disability (an “aggravating factor”), a Regulatory Commission shall consider the imposition of an increased sanction.”c
(12) Fifa news: free speech Fifa say South African editors complaining about "bullying" restrictions on journalists at the World Cup – which include a compulsion "not to bring Fifa into disrepute" – are misguided.
(13) Never did she suspect I had done anything wrong, despite the Pakistani media saying – and continuing to say – the German authorities had caught a terrorist from Balochistan.” Much of the reporting continues to say that Baloch has brought the reputation of Pakistan into disrepute, because of German authorities identifying him as a Pakistani and failing to mention Balochistan.
(14) Without proper care, these procedures can in fact reflect negatively on the physician performing them and fall in disrepute.
(15) Club being put into disrepute.” Another, @infuriousbeauty, stated: ”People might want to consider asking @stokecity football club why their player @robert_huth thinks it’s okay to bully trans people online.
(16) Some donors have asked to be anonymous and none of them is a disreputable person.
(17) In fact, IUDs have fallen into disrepute largely because of resulting complications, failures, and side effects.
(18) Under normal protocol, honours from Buckingham Palace are forfeited if a person is considered to have brought the system into disrepute.
(19) In a letter sent today to Stephenson, Watson said: "The Metropolitan police's historic and continued mishandling of this affair is bringing your force, and hence our democracy, into disrepute.
(20) The GMC panel chairman, Surendra Kumar, said: "In causing blood samples to be taken from children at a birthday party, he callously disregarded the pain and distress young children might suffer and behaved in a way which brought the profession into disrepute."
Seedy
Definition:
(superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
(superl.) Having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of French brandy.
(superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Calculations were based on the contamination of 2310 specimens of citrus fruits, pitted and seedy fruits and vegetables collected in the 1985-86 and 1989 campaigns.
(2) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
(3) "It is artistic and not dark or seedy," the broadcaster said, while admitting that "in hindsight" the title may have caused problems.
(4) Sugiura was believed to have been negotiating a settlement to a territorial dispute in Tokyo's seedy Roppongi district with the Kokusui-kai, a smaller Tokyo-based gang that joined the Yamaguchi-gumi in 2005, just as the latter began extending its influence in the capital and other parts of eastern Japan .
(5) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
(6) Evidently, Richards saw the impersonation as an affectionate tribute, and in this third picture in the franchise he has a brief role as Jack Sparrow's wonderfully seedy father, Captain Jack Teague.
(7) He also realised that if Las Vegas's seedy image was changed, it could bring in a new clientele.
(8) The character grew out of a sketch called "Seedy Boss" that Gervais's long-time writing partner, Stephen Merchant, shot for his BBC training course.
(9) But following a murder and two high-profile arson attacks in the past month, the Kent town has been the subject of a series of lurid headlines that suggest it may take more than a cultural revolution for Margate to escape its seedy past.
(10) Both brothers said they wanted to put the seedy deals of the Blair-Brown era behind them.
(11) There are networks of mateship that become pretty seedy, they are about influence peddling and become more dangerous, he says.
(12) The Gare du Midi neighbourhood is seen by many as a seedy area where you don’t want to hang around if you can help it (and with a Eurostar ticket you can easily hop on a train to the smartly renovated Central Station).
(13) "This seedy bid would shame a banana republic," Watson said, while Labour frontbencher Ivan Lewis asked why Hunt had had "so little to say on the phone hacking scandal".
(14) The story begins in 1960 when the 43-year-old Anthony Burgess returned from Singapore to find the England he'd left in the late Forties transformed into an ugly divided country where the last seedy Teds prowled the streets of London and race riots had erupted in our big cities.
(15) Ten minutes walk from Frankfurt's main railway station, through a warren of sex shops and seedy gambling dens, two dozen of the most powerful unelected people on the continent gather once a fortnight to try to save Europe from itself.
(16) I had always thought of him as seedy – a walking STD in skinny jeans – but he looks surprisingly wholesome: lovely olive skin, Malteser-brown eyes, well-washed, tactile (more knee patting than you’d get off Terry Wogan in his prime).
(17) Instead of the seedy anti-democratic gang that plotted against a Labour prime minister, they can claim to be the first line of defence against indiscriminate attacks on the streets of Britain.
(18) The more we talk, and the more you listen to his old material, the more he seems less like the righteous Bill Hicks type "lazy" journalists like to compare him to, and more a Charles Bukowski -esque character: a drunken deadbeat throwing out tales from America's seedy underbelly without caring too much what the "message" is.
(19) Subjects were then examined and the four quadrants of each breast were rated on a scale of 0 to 3 (0 = normal, fatty tissue, 1 = little seedy bumps or fine nodularity, 2 = discrete nodules or ropy tissue, 3 = confluent areas, hard or soft masses).
(20) It has not entirely shaken off its earliest, seedy connotations – but then that’s part of its charm.