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disreputability

disreputability noun: the state of being disreputable.

Noun

disreputability (countable and uncountable, plural disreputabilities)

  1. The state of being disreputable.
    • […] with all his bogus diabolism and his vanity of pretending to disreputability, he is genuinely superstitious and disreputable.1937, T. S. Eliot, “Byron”, in On Poetry and Poets, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1961, page 239
    • […] a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5

Forms of disreputability

pluraldisreputabilities

Questions about disreputability

What does disreputability mean?
Disreputability means the state of being disreputable.
What part of speech is disreputability?
Disreputability is a noun.
What is the plural of disreputability?
The plural of disreputability is disreputabilities.

Words near disreputability in the dictionary

  1. disrepair
  2. disrepaired
  3. disrepairing
  4. disrepairs
  5. disreputabilities
  6. disreputability
  7. disreputable
  8. disreputableness
  9. disreputables
  10. disreputably
  11. disreputation

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