1 When the first hour was out, Stephen even began to have an uncomfortable sensation upon him of being for the time a disreputable character.
2 I consider, sir, that you have obtained possession of that book, under very suspicious and disreputable circumstances; and you may think yourself very fortunate that the owner of the property declines to prosecute.
3 It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 4 Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several places.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE 5 However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly respectable self.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 6 First of all there was her disreputable father and then her mother's boarding house was beginning to get a certain fame.
7 I should feel much more comfortable in a private house than in this disreputable tavern.
8 So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable.
9 She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence.
Les Misérables (V1) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX—MADAME VICTURNIEN'S SUCCESS 10 The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally fallen into disrepute.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 11 Fraser, the tutor, died however, and the school which had begun well sank from disrepute into infamy.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 15. A Retrospection