disreputability

Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.

In certain people, that means there's a lot of dammed-up disreputability just waiting to burst out.

The beard only intensified his good looks, adding the dubious charm of disreputability.

The characters are likable, respectable in their disreputability.

Yet the same style guaranteed eventual success after European composers had made heavy dissonance and certain kinds of ironic disreputability highly reputable.

(Home section, Jan. 19): You leave an impression of respectability as the norm, disreputability as the exception.

Tahiya had asked several times for employment in Suad's nightclub but Suad refused to employ her due to the disreputability of working at a night club.

The somewhat grizzled hair on his thin chest and the sparse one-day growth on his chin lent him an entirely fallacious appearance of disreputability.

On the disreputability scale it's okay that I might be a cold-blooded killer, but not that I played five-card stud to pay the rent."

But while Japanese racing may lack the high-society sheen of American or European clubhouses, Japanese betting lacks the stigma of disreputability that hangs over Western grandstands.

And you don't go to a film like Animal House for cinema, you go for roughhousing disreputability; it makes you laugh by restoring you to the slobby infant in yourself."

You downplay the disreputability of her son, Edward VII, but he is the true predecessor of the Duke of Windsor and the present royals, and symbolically of Charles II's family.

Remarkably quickly, AIDS shed the kind of disreputability that had led early commentators blithely to suggest tattoos and concentration camps and moved into the category of problems (like alcoholism) that must be discussed forthrightly.

This new material, while clever, rarely reaches the level of Seussian inventiveness, and Seuss's way of giving some of his characters, like Ichabod and Izzy, an occasional air of sly disreputability is missing.

His hair had the faint acrid scent of stale smoke and tallow, and his coat had completed its descent into total disreputability, but he was warm and solid, and I wasn't disposed to be critical about the smell of the head I was cradling next my bosom.

From every point it is a masterpiece, this picture of boy life in a little lazy, drowsy town, with all the irresponsibility and general disreputability of boy character coupled with that indefinable, formless, elusive something we call boy conscience, which is more likely to be boy terror and a latent instinct of manliness.

There were nine photographers, two of them full-time employees of the paper from Florida, the other seven sometime contract workers from New England, all nine of such a level of disreputability and disorganization as to make Sara's bag lady photographer of Indianapolis look like Meryl Streep playing Greet Garson.