(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."
Slicker
Definition:
(n.) That which makes smooth or sleek.
(n.) A kind of burnisher for leather.
(n.) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mold after the withdrawal of the pattern.
(n.) A waterproof coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Greggs on a roll The most important City news of last week was, of course, provided by Jake Gyllenhaal , the film actor who made his name in some critically acclaimed cowboy movie ( City Slickers ?).
(2) • Doubles from $113 B&B, no phone, ventanasalmarcozumel.com Fusion, Playa del Carmen Facebook Twitter Pinterest Years ago, most of Playa’s hippie beach bars and hostels converted to slicker, louder operations.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest 2013’s Bad Motherfucker was bigger, nastier and slicker, featuring breasts, swearing, and a German shepherd hurled through a window.
(5) If Algieri’s right hand could tag Khan consistently, what havoc might the infinitely slicker welterweight champ wreak?
(6) I was relatively new to standup, and because it’s a heavily edited TV gig, it makes me look a bit slicker than I am.
(7) Located near all the tourist sites of Hollywood Boulevard, this is slightly more grown up and slicker than the Magic Castle Hotel.
(8) If you watch someone who's really good at doing these sorts of shows, they're much slicker."
(9) Pitch Perfect would give you an all male a cappella team struggling to defeat a slicker, all-female team – in terms of casting, and even in terms of substantial parts, it would be mostly a wash.
(10) Photograph: Popperfoto Some social media reports are faster and slicker than traditional news outlets, which often react to rather than report news, amplifying misinformation.
(11) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(12) I have yet to be persuaded there will be any truly new games or any new kinds of interaction from Sony or Microsoft, the best I think we can hope for is more of the same, only slicker, and with a bigger carbon footprint.
(13) Presumably there is a marketing department there now, because there are many shops, all far slicker than Help Poland, including one called Heritage Brides.
(14) The left, more influential then than in recent years, hated the results, but the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock, desperate for power, supported the new, slicker, more voter-friendly approach to political communications.
(15) To follow that logic, Miliband will need to hug a pinstriped City slicker waving a Coutts card to be seen as anywhere near the centre ground.
(16) There have been shows about gay life and the lives of gay men, before: Russell T Davies made history with Channel 4's Queer as Folk, and a slicker US version ran for five seasons.
(17) Sharper, slicker, hungrier and consistently half a yard quicker than West Ham during the first 45 minutes, Sunderland appeared to have undergone a most extraordinary makeover.
(18) The hope is that slicker, more convenient post offices will attract a greater number of small business owners and ordinary shoppers, and help boost sales of financial services such as current accounts, insurance and mortgages.
(19) Zinio (free, paid-for content) similarly displays glossy magazines and has much the same functionality but with a slicker interface; crucially, it turns printed weblinks into interactive ones.
(20) By the end, with Scott Parker incensed by John Mikel Obi's petulant kick, it was easy to forget that Chelsea had not been the slicker of these sides for long periods.