Its disreputableness robbed them of speech.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
To be attached to our Administration is almost a stigma of disreputableness.
"The Soul of a People"
H. Fielding
It would be necessary to clean him to make a close guess at his age; but he is under forty, and an upturned, red moustache, and the arrangement of his hair in a crest on his brow, proclaim the dandy in spite of his intense disreputableness.
"The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet"
George Bernard Shaw