Disrepute is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISREPUTE in dictionary:

VERB:
• To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
NOUN:
• bad repute, discredit
• the state of being held in low esteem by the public
• loss or lack of good reputation
• Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lack or decline of good reputation; a state of being held in low esteem

Words related to DISREPUTE

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Words that contain DISREPUTE

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How to use DISREPUTE in a sentence

• The women of this country voluntarily burn themselves along with the bodies of their deceased husbands, and those who neglect to do this are held in disrepute.
• We may here remark that, during the government of the House of Burgundy, the clergy of the Netherlands had fallen into considerable disrepute.
• I often regret that selfishness, cupidity, and the kind of strife which prevails in our sex, on the road to matrimony, have brought celibacy into disrepute.
• With the advent of the Hinks strain in 1862 the short-faced dog fell into disrepute, and pure white became the accepted colour.
• One might multiply instances to show how so many not only fail to find health by their unreasonable methods, but bring ridicule and disrepute on certain of the measures followed.
• But, with all these imperfections, the Lombardy Poplar was more worthy of the honors it received from our predecessors than of its present disrepute.
• Then, throughout Germany, the scholastic formalism of the old Renaissance began to fall into disrepute, and a finer feeling for the eloquence of pure lines began to show itself.
• These are the self-made men who bring into disrepute all the grandeur and glorious achievement of their kind.
• Marcel and his partisans, having fallen into somewhat of disrepute and neglect, keenly felt how necessary, and also saw how easy, it was for them to become completely masters.
• James, but the dead weight which the standing disrepute of our diplomacy imposed on both those distinguished men can hardly now be estimated.
• During the crusades the infantry fell into disrepute.
• It was to a certain extent, however, thrown into disrepute by various fantastic theories with which Oken surrounded it.
• Pete realized that his loyalty to the memory of Annersley had earned him disrepute.
• The opinion has sunk into general disrepute and neglect, and it would be hard to find many avowed disciples of it.
• By these methods they brought into disrepute that which had once been dear to the whole Church, but was now of no further service.
• The consequence of this sorry record is the worldwide disrepute into which religion has fallen.
• I fear such treatment of vocal physiology has brought it into disrepute.
• It is such crude mechanics masquerading under the name of science that has brought voice training into general disrepute.
• Whereas, instead, he got himself into disrepute and ruined his career, becoming subject to reproach, and finally falling a victim to a disaster that he richly deserved.
• Fallen into disrepute among his fellows owing to the evil plight towards which he had enticed them, it became his increasing purpose to frequent the house beyond the river.
• Thus the whole subject has fallen into disrepute with intelligent people.
• In fact, as events turned out, it looked as though Hindman were decidedly more in disrepute there than was Pike.
• That the assembly intended to impair the functions of justice and to bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
• Stock cattle were in such disrepute that they had no cash value.
• They are thus made to occupy an invidious position, which may be used to strengthen the arguments of those who would bring into disrepute the obligations of the nation.
• Like the scholastic method and the worship of Aristotle, the Disputation fell into disrepute because of the extravagant lengths to which it was carried.
• Such gifts suggest too much incompetence and such honours too much disrepute.
• The conscientious women who throw stones through shop windows, and lay violent hands on cabinet ministers, do so, avowedly, to bring certain laws into disrepute.
• They are falling into disrepute, but for the love of the children let us maintain them as far as we can.
• They certainly, with many, bring it into disrepute.
• He redeemed its character from the disrepute into which it had fallen.

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