disreputably

He brushed at it, but it stuck out, hanging disreputably over one eye.

Potter's powder room was, to say the least, as disreputably maintained as the rest of his domain.

He saluted again, even more disreputably than before, and went off to rejoin his comrades in wizardry.

These duels, particularly of the formal variety, are sometimes used disreputably for gain by unscrupulous swordsmen.

"It has acted disreputably.

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.

He was half- starved and disreputably dirty, and he had a fever of thirty- eight degrees centigrade.

This pamphlet also contained a crude woodcut portrait of Nashe, shown as a man disreputably dressed and in fetters.

Your mother is, as you imply, acting disreputably, but I'm wary of solutions to any ethical problem that involve illicit surgery - to a cat or its owner.

He hoped to resume his life with his wife and children but found them living disreputably at the Villa Gherardesca and ill-disposed to welcome him.

The second however was judged to be "living disreputably": he was expelled from the priory and sent to Bermondsey Abbey to do penance.

Slovenly appearance, lodging disreputably and "fighting with any, beating his neighbour, or keeping a correspondence with thieves, pickpockets or debauched persons" were grounds for expulsion.

From the way in which his supercilious gaze flicked over me, I knew the question to be one of challenge rather than curiosity; my appearance must have seemed disreputably suspect to him.

The agent who had desk duty noted the entrance of two people somewhat disreputably dressed, the elder of whom had something wrapped in his leather jacket and tucked under his arm.

Here is the way the Italian miners live, as described in a doctor's report: Houses up the canyon, so-called, of which eight are habitable, and forty-six simply awful; they are disreputably disgraceful.

Although I was disreputably ragged, dirty, and out of place in that gaudily feathered and jeweled assemblage, the Uey-Tlatoani directed me to the pillowed seat of honor on the ground at his right.

He went to his crony Charles Churchill, a man who lived as disreputably as Wilkes himself, had separated from his wife as Wilkes had, and had made some reputation as a poet.

Disreputably dressed; a costumed proletarian in a problem play, who has learned social indictments by heart, who in the third act will become an agitator and ringleader, and who nevertheless fell a victim to our buzz saw.

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.

Elizabeth Chudleigh's place was safe at Court however disreputably she behaved; though Elizabeth Chudleigh would do well to remember that there were some limits beyond which a Princess would not go even to avoid involving her son in a hideous scandal.