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a disreputable Internet retailer that had a record of hundreds of complaints for shoddy merchandise and slow refunds
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
The Threads post contains a link to a longer article published Feb. 14 by a disreputable website.
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Nice, but Trump continues his attacks on free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
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Of course being an Agatha Christie yarn set in England 1936, that disreputable unfinished business between the former sweethearts is followed by a violent death.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2025
The Threads post contains a link to a longer article published Feb. 14 by a disreputable website.
—Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2025
Nice, but Trump continues his attacks on free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
—Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2025
Of course being an Agatha Christie yarn set in England 1936, that disreputable unfinished business between the former sweethearts is followed by a violent death.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Disreputable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disreputable. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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disreputable
adjective
dis·rep·u·ta·ble
(ˈ)dis-ˈrep-yət-ə-bəl 
: not respectable : having a bad reputation
disreputableness
noun
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