How to Use disrepute in a Sentence

disrepute

noun
  • The theory has been in disrepute for years.
  • Here, six ways to rescue the random spaces under a home’s eaves from disrepute.
    — Nina Molina, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2022
  • When did the notion of nation-building fall into disrepute, and why?
    — Laura King, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • And that will be the same time when actual video evidence falls into disrepute.
    — Eric Zorn, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2019
  • These reports risk bringing all of our offices into disrepute.
    — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Anyway, Portia managed to cover the whole thing up to avoid disrepute.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Something was lost when that tradition fell into disrepute.
    — Lula Konner, The New York Review of Books, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Those and other embarrassments brought the field into disrepute in the West.
    — Mara Hvistendahl, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
  • But at some point these approaches came into disrepute, at least in their most overt manifestations.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Corporate leaders did not want to return to the disrepute of the 1930s.
    — Robert Samuelson, Twin Cities, 25 Aug. 2019
  • But that work—not his own—quickly fell into disrepute, and a larger crisis over irreproducible results began to spread.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Instagram likewise bestows fame (and filters and fans) on the beautiful and can banish them to infamy and disrepute.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Thus, the American version of capitalism is, if not in full disrepute, then at least no longer dominant.
    — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
  • By the end of the Obama years, the entire concept of for-profit higher education had sunk into disrepute.
    — James Lardner, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Because such people possessed no special skill or status, the word gradually fell into disrepute.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Because such people possessed no special status or skill, the word idiot gradually fell into disrepute.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Or should he be held in disrepute as another perpetrator of domestic violence?
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 23 May 2018
  • But in recent years, this puritanical approach to managing the ups and downs of the economy had fallen into disrepute.
    — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • And what should producers and consumers of American media, which is already in deep disrepute, think about Wolff, our least reputable face?
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • These clauses enable a company to exit or suspend a contract when the athlete brings disrepute on either himself/herself or the company.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • On Thursday, Avenatti dropped another few pegs on his descent into disrepute.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 8 July 2021
  • The shift to alternatives comes ahead of a year-end deadline to end the use of Libor, which fell into disrepute after a manipulation scandal.
    — Mark Maurer, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
  • But the practice had fallen into disrepute, especially among conservatives, as a symbol of wasteful spending that was steered by cronyism rather than actual need.
    — Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2022
  • By the time the Rolling Stones visited in 1967, the city known as the Door of Africa had descended into disrepute.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Adding to its disrepute, the business of smuggling people over the border is now entirely controlled by organized crime, at least in the Rio Grande Valley.
    — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2021
  • Under the game’s rules, players can be removed for behavior that results in public disrepute, offends the public or damages its image, Blizzard said, adding that the two hosts were also fired.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Oct. 2019
  • But Protestant involvement in Guatemalan politics has been messy, and plentiful compromises have dragged the faith into disrepute.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • After falling into disrepute a decade ago in the wake of a manipulation scandal, the world’s largest banks and regulators world-wide are scheduled to abandon the short-term borrowing benchmark by year-end.
    — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2021
  • But addressing monuments to people, parties and movements that have fallen into disrepute has not been simple in Germany, or elsewhere in Europe.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The song was soon dropped after both the club and player publicly chastised the offending fans for their behaviour, but the incident serves as a chilling reminder that such regressive attitudes are still bringing the game into disrepute.
    — SI.com, 1 Feb. 2018

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