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, 1961, p. 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, Part One, Chapter 5,

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