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disreputability

Meaning of "disreputability" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DISREPUTABILITY

dɪsˌrɛpjʊtəˈbɪlɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISREPUTABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disreputability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DISREPUTABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disreputability in the English dictionary

The definition of disreputability in the dictionary is the quality or state of having or causing a lack of repute.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISREPUTABILITY

ability · accessibility · accountability · availability · capability · compatibility · disability · durability · eligibility · flexibility · inability · liability · mobility · nobility · possibility · probability · reliability · responsibility · stability · visibility

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISREPUTABILITY

disregarder · disregardful · disregardfully · disregardfulness · disregards · disrelated · disrelation · disrelish · disremember · disrepair · disreputable · disreputableness · disreputably · disreputation · disrepute · disrespect · disrespectability · disrespectable · disrespectful · disrespectfully

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISREPUTABILITY

agility · credibility · facility · feasibility · fertility · functionality · hostility · humility · inevitability · instability · merchantability · profitability · suitability · susceptibility · sustainability · tranquility · usability · utility · variability · versatility · vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of disreputability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disreputability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISREPUTABILITY

Find out the translation of disreputability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of disreputability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disreputability» in English.
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disreputability
1,325 millions of speakers
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disreputability
570 millions of speakers
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disreputability
510 millions of speakers
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disreputability
380 millions of speakers
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disreputability
280 millions of speakers
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disreputability
278 millions of speakers
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disreputability
270 millions of speakers
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disreputability
260 millions of speakers
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disreputability
220 millions of speakers
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Ketidakpastian
190 millions of speakers
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disreputability
180 millions of speakers
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disreputability
130 millions of speakers
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disreputability
85 millions of speakers
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Disreputability
85 millions of speakers
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disreputability
80 millions of speakers
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disreputability
75 millions of speakers
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अव्यक्तता
75 millions of speakers
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disreputability
70 millions of speakers
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disreputability
65 millions of speakers
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disreputability
50 millions of speakers
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disreputability
40 millions of speakers
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disreputability
30 millions of speakers
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disreputability
15 millions of speakers
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disreputability
14 millions of speakers
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disreputability
10 millions of speakers
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disreputability
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disreputability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISREPUTABILITY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of disreputability
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disreputability

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISREPUTABILITY»

Discover the use of disreputability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disreputability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language in South Africa
It is a struggle for control over the imputation or enaction of stigmatising disreputability. Decent mense define themselves in opposition to skollies ' delinquent ruffians, riff-raff - the stigmatised Natural - who are said to act ignorantly, vulgarly and ...
Rajend Mesthrie, 2002
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Language and Social History: Studies in South African ...
... and thus as the pursuit of perfect order, stability, privacy and upward socio- economic mobility, or at least avoidance of downward mobility. It is a struggle for control over the imputation or enaction of stigmatising disreputability. Decent mense ...
Rajend Mesthrie, 1995
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Queering Christianity: Finding a Place at the Table for ...
Issues such as when and where discussions of eroticism should take place, as well as how to include the input of parents of young people, should be kept in mind whenever a faith community embarks on the journey to disreputability. But we ...
Robert Everett Shore-Goss, Thomas Bohache, 2013
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Disreputable Pleasures: Less Virtuous Victorians at Play
Less Virtuous Victorians at Play Mike Huggins, J. A. Mangan. Disreputable Pleasures sets out to further challenge the 'respectability' thesis by examining the extent of disreputability, mainly, but not wholly, in terms of actual middle-class leisure ...
Mike Huggins, J. A. Mangan, 2004
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GREAT ENTERPRISE
Moreover, being unable to justify his own collaboration in broader terms than individual participation and personal interest, Wu Weiye was more than ever vulnerable to charges of disreputability.113 Emperors and Martyrs Strictly speaking, ...
FREDERIC WAKEMAN JR., 1986
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Southeast Asian Affairs 2007
Of course, a measure of disreputability has characterized many of the leading Thai political figures of the last three decades. Unlike most such figures, too, Thaksin had a number of characteristics that appealed to an urban, relatively affluent, ...
Daljit Singh, Lorraine Carlos Salazar, 2007
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Contingent Employment, Workforce Health, and Citizenship
Powerlessness, Marginalisation, and Disreputability: Contingent Work, Contingent Workers, and Inactive Citizenship Another way that the discourse of disadvantage recasts the workers in this study as inactive citizens is revealed in their ...
Marcia E. Facey
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American Anthropology, 1971-1995: Papers from the American ...
Real, as against ideal, moral systems often accommodate more disreputability than anthropologists give them credit for, and the association between performance and disreputability has often been remarked (see Abrahams and Bauman n.d.).
Regna Darnell, 2002
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Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film ...
Clover, and Creed, who have written books about the contemporary horror film.2 The disreputability of the genre, to which critics invariably allude, is related to its importance. Robin Wood (1978) argues that the disreputability of the horror ...
Isabel Cristina Pinedo, 1997
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Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821
But the reviewer makes no distinction between these and Ashe's less legitimate aliases, lumping them all together as signs of his disreputability. And—again the Coates reference is apt—disreputability consists in equal and overlapping parts ...
Kristin Flieger Samuelian, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISREPUTABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disreputability is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Ty Cobb the truth got lost inside Ty Cobb the myth
Players weren't well paid, and given that they made their living from a game and spent their life on the road, a whiff of disreputability hung over ... «Detroit Free Press, Jun 15»
2
Man and Superman, National Theatre, review: 'Has Fiennes ever …
Instead of promiscuity, his latter-day equivalent's disreputability lies in his obstinate disavowal of the claims of the opposite sex, whom he ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
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The Simpsons: “My Fare Lady”
... but Moe's irascible disreputability has grown into his own thing—the sleazy, lonely small businessman, for whom slinging watery beer to guys ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Feb 15»
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Tipsheet: Ex-Tigers find life after MU basketball
Tarkanian spent most of his professional life as a poster boy for disreputability. Today, with the NCAA itself in broad disrepute, it's almost as if ... «STLtoday.com, Feb 15»
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Otherwise, the movie works so hard to advertise its disreputability that it comes off as anything but. At one point, Quill not-so-subtly flips the bird ... «LA Weekly, Jan 15»
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'Microsotan' Henry Fonda wore himself out while a U of M student in …
As a profession, it still carried a whiff of disreputability. MinnPost photo by Andy Sturdevant. Fonda's listing in the 1924 Minneapolis city ... «MinnPost, Jan 15»
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Bill Cosby sued again for defamation, which seems likely to continue
... it's presumed that she shares Traitz and Green's belief that Cosby's reps have fostered a general air of disreputability around all his accusers. «A.V. Club, Jan 15»
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Goddess Club 7: Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie Interviewed
There's a fundamental disreputability to pop music. And that's kinda what I mean when I say it's a pop song. As in yes, we're dealing with some ... «The Quietus, Nov 14»
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Michael Den Tandt: Sona affair adds another entry to Tories' police …
... collectively worn blob of disreputability? This is the question that emerges, again, in the wake of Michael Sona's sentencing to nine months in ... «National Post, Nov 14»
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'The Expendables 3' tanks at the box office: 5 things that went wrong
... called the film's PG-13 makeover "a gutless decision that drains the action of its excitement, its visceral impact and its glorious disreputability.". «Los Angeles Times, Aug 14»
REFERENCE
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