disreputability

English

Noun

disreputability (countable and uncountable, plural disreputabilities)

1. The state of being disreputable.
   • 1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239:

     […] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎^[1], Part One, Chapter 5:

     […] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.

References

• “disreputability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.