disreputable
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“One Spoon of Chocolate” is executive produced and presented by Tarantino, who shares with RZA a fondness for the disreputable corners of genre cinema.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
They couldn’t do that if they acknowledged the center for what it actually is—a competitor, and a particularly disreputable one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Bad advice does not always equate to disreputable used-car salespeople.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 14, 2025
"If that is the reason, it's disreputable and it can't be supported in any way."
From BBC • May 12, 2025
There has been little written on the end of alchemy, yet an activity which was respectable in the eyes of Boyle and Newton had become entirely disreputable by the 1720s.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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