Medals can denote honorable deeds as well as ones that are questionable or disreputable. |
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The council and the police are trying to get rid of disreputable doormen, and this needs to be done. |
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Before then, there was something faintly disreputable about really big fortunes. |
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If she went in the back, she might come across some of the more disreputable characters that would turn her act into a reality. |
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This allows disreputable drivers to monopolize taxi stands, canceling out chances of customers finding a decent cab to travel home in. |
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In olden days, crooks used to shave or clip the edges of coins and then sell the shavings to a disreputable goldsmith or silversmith. |
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Like a disreputable character who wins a libel action on a technicality, he should be given a ha'p'orth of damages, if any. |
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The exploitation of sectarian disputes within a movement to discredit its members is time-honored and disreputable. |
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Lane, a somewhat disreputable character, did not turn up to defend himself, and was excommunicated. |
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The problem is severest for women, who in Colombia are held in contempt or deemed disreputable for working at all. |
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One day, his disreputable and drunken manservant appeared at table in a yellow coat. |
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The American people have stubbornly refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a disreputable anachronism. |
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He worked in the most disreputable realms of the already dubious area of Hollywood low-budget filmmaking. |
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I see any business or charity that needs to use unsolicited bulk emails as a means of marketing itself, tends to be a disreputable organisation. |
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He said it was worth considering licensing private military companies to encourage reputable ones and eliminate disreputable operators. |
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The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child. |
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The empirical method was inextricably confused with the disreputable practice of alchemy. |
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They buried him in unconsecrated ground, as befitted a disreputable member of a degenerate profession. |
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I am pretty sure I'm a drink-soaked popinjay myself, and formerly many things of a disreputable nature. |
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When you purchase a pottle take care, disreputable vendors often stuff the bottom with paper or overripe berries. |
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She played the disreputable vamp who wore flashy clothes and repeatedly raised her skirt as if to advertise her availability. |
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The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places. |
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Over the great band of society where, in 1914, it had been odd and disreputable not to go to church, it was now seen as odd and a form of infantilism to do so. |
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There is nothing disreputable or sinister in this, quite the contrary. |
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Such deliberate muddying of the waters on the issues is misleading and disreputable. |
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We are very concerned about people getting scammed by disreputable businesses that have gone into it because there is such a high demand. |
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Travis, Dallas, Sean and Mike look like the kind of disreputable longhairs that southern sheriffs were always trying to run out of town in movies from the Sixties. |
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When Wilde arrived at L'Hôtel – then known as Hôtel d'Alsace – in August 1899, it was considered to be something of a disreputable place. |
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Michael's competitors were disreputable, he said, and he needed to be vigilant with potential clients. |
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But it's when something suspect or disreputable needs to be sanitised, that youth scenery comes into its own. |
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Even if she is of disreputable character, this does not preclude her right to custody until the child reaches the age of five years. |
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We also sought out cases that involved agent provocateurs or disreputable conduct, and here we found no new ones. |
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Special care must be taken with police agents and other potentially disreputable witnesses, particularly foreign ones. |
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In addition, certain disreputable suppliers disappear without remitting the tax collected. |
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Even its architecture mimics the conflict between seediness and sophistication in a disreputable world posing as the most refined city in the East. |
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I wish to make it clear that I do not for one moment suggest that any member of the board is or has been guilty of any dishonesty or disreputable comment. |
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For other sports, cricket makes for a perfectly disreputable villain. |
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And far be it from me to make the same disreputable charge in reverse. |
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All of these things must surely point to him being one of the most thoroughly disreputable fellows ever to appear on the British stage, before he even opened his mouth. |
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Some economists do, however, take sides in a most disreputable way. |
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Acting was still a disreputable profession, but respectable Nelly is reluctant to become his kept woman. |
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So far, so disreputable, especially if you bought into Assange's rock-star status. |
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In 1972, as a young director, he saw his first film released to a handful of disreputable theaters. |
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Or must they have been pushed, perhaps by her disreputable boyfriend or even a deranged stranger? |
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Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret. |
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The search for the disreputable which reinforces the notion of difference as objectified otherness is often carried out with the help of Third World women themselves. |
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Triers of fact will not lightly accept unsupported assertions by a disreputable witness where nothing but his or her word implicates the accused in the commission of the crime charged. |
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If you're planning to hire a mover, do your homework to ensure that you don't get taken advantage of by disreputable and fraudulent moving companies. |
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This lack of regulation has allowed disreputable companies to offer uncertified training programs that push unqualified drivers into the industry to meet the soaring demand for new drivers. |
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A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked. |
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The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. |
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The Court split four to three on whether a Vetrovec warning ought to have been included in the trial judge's charge to the jury on the evidence of the two disreputable Crown witnesses. |
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The current President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, appeared in the newspaper L'Unità condemning the revolutionaries as thugs and disreputable troublemakers. |
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Journalism is a noble calling, a skilled craft, a respectable trade, or ignoble, sloppy, or disreputable depending on the character and skill of the practitioner. |
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He did not publish all these discoveries, and at this time infinitesimal methods were still considered disreputable. |
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They performed the same functions but were somewhat disreputable, as they were frequented by thieves and prostitutes. |
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To call an individual a black sheep implies that they are an odd or disreputable member of a group. |
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Prisoners included political troublemakers and individuals held at the request of their families, often to coerce a young member into obedience or to prevent a disreputable member from marring the family's name. |
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By the end of that century, however, 'trafficking' had become disassociated from trading and was used to refer to the sale of illicit or disreputable goods. |
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Down in the lint of God's pocket rests Leon, a flick-knife wielding toerag so disreputable that when a co-worker snapped and conked him on the head, everyone swore blind it was an accident. |
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The sugar market is just one more disreputable example of this. |
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In addition to their disreputable role as precursor compounds in the generation of ozone and fine particulates, nitrogen oxides also have damaging effects on agriculture. |
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As well as the Telegraph allegedly purging proper coverage of HSBC's role in tax evasion from its pages because of advertising, we now know the Barclay brothers took a loan from this disreputable bank. |
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Up until Powell began making his speeches about race the views he was expressing had widespread currency in private but in public they were disreputable, stuck out there in a margin to the right of the Conservatives. |
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And a more dissolute, disreputable and dislikable character to break with the suave, super-competent 007 image would be hard to imagine. |
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However, we have in past audits identified reports that favorably rated disreputable agencies, and we remarked on arrangements that had been left dormant for many years. |
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This discretionary power may be used in the event of a large number of complaints about one specific disreputable firm, or in order to settle a matter of principle. |
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The Reserve at present occupied by them being in the suburbs of Victoria, and consequently open to the visits of whiskey settlers, and other disreputable characters. |
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Cavalieri's work was not well respected since his methods could lead to erroneous results, and the infinitesimal quantities he introduced were disreputable at first. |
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Austen disapproved of the Prince Regent on the account of his womanising, gambling, drinking, spendthrift ways and generally disreputable behaviour. |
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In fact, he walked out of Cambridge but would probably have been sent down had he continued his rowdy carrying on with such disreputable young men as Malcolm Lowry. |
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