Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Damage to or loss of reputation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Loss or want of reputation; disesteem; discredit; dishonor.
- n. Synonyms III repute, low esteem, disrespect.
- To bring into discredit or disgrace.
Wiktionary
- n. Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
- v. To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
- v. rare To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being held in low esteem
Etymologies
- dis- + repute (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Community as the basis for Movement-making is in disrepute, replaced by mailings, marketing and polling, Twitter and Facebook.”
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“The only disrepute is through toadying management trying their utmost to pretend all is fine and dandy in the ranks, and present to ‘the public’ a false and toothy-grinned image of their local utopia.”
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“Pei writes, the potato, for its part, was in disrepute some centuries ago.”
“Some of the disrepute is deserved and some is artificially induced.”
“I suppose you’re right about that – I don’t approve of the job he’s doing – but I suspect your reasons for holding him in disrepute are lots different from mine.”
“I am seriously worried that the whole thing is going to bring the whole of politics into disrepute, meaning that people will start "fending" for themselves and largely ignoring rules and regs.”
“At a later period, with the increased religious veneration for all kinds of life, agriculture apparently fell into some kind of disrepute as involving the sacrifice of insect life, and there was”
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“Jon Burge, speaking at his sentencing hearing today, apologized for bringing "disrepute" on the department but remained unrepentant about the torture allegations against him.”
“Hours earlier, Burge apologized for bringing "disrepute" on the police department but he remained unrepentant about the torture allegations against him.”
“The former defence secretary and two other ex-ministers were suspended for bringing the Labour Party into "disrepute" after revelations in a Channel 4 Dispatches programme.”
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