disreputably

• “He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.”

  Chapter 25

• “By contrast, there are thousands of judges and prosecutors actively engaged in the corrections business, some disreputably.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeff Norman: Polanski: To Hate or Not to Hate

• “He had refused to comb his hair, on grounds that even his scalp was sore, and he looked a wild and woolly sight, red spikes sticking up above a swollen purple face with one eye squeezed disreputably shut.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “But don't blame lobbyists or corporations who look after their own interests no more keenly or disreputably than parents guard the interests of their own children.”

  In Defence of Lobbying

• “And hey: if you say they're acting disreputably/unethically, why don't you say something to them?”

  It’s a Small World After All

• “This antipathy breaks neatly along class lines, as the stable cultural properties of books and painting in the nineteenth century became more and more identified with middle-class aspiration and identity, and the ephemeral opera with an atavistic, marginalized and disreputably”

  Introduction

• “Some are child prodigies, and others late bloomers; some peak early and others late; some seem over the hill at a disreputably youthful age, whereas others seem to save their magnum opus for the swan song of their life and career…”

  Archive 2007-07-01

• “Nor need such beliefs imply anything disreputably “metaphysical”, in the Nietzschean sense that they lead us into a covert worship of what Williams takes to be the will o 'the wisps of theism or Platonism.”

  Bernard Williams

• “His thick brown hair had fallen half out of its binding, and several cowlicks were sticking straight up, the rest fallen disreputably over one eye.”

  A Breath of Snow and Ashes

• “I remember well, when I was still the junior boy in the school, Dr. Butler, the head-master, stopping me in the street, and asking me, with all the clouds of Jove upon his brow and the thunder in his voice, whether it was possible that Harrow School was disgraced by so disreputably dirty a boy as I!”

  An Autobiography

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