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DISREPUTABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disreputably mean?
• DISREPUTABLY (adverb)
The adverb DISREPUTABLY has 1 sense:
1. in a disreputable manner
Familiarity information: DISREPUTABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a disreputable manner
Antonym:
reputably (in a reputable manner)
Pertainym:
disreputable (lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance)
Context examples
He had no second-best suit that was presentable, and though he could go to the butcher and the baker, and even on occasion to his sister's, it was beyond all daring to dream of entering the Morse home so disreputably apparelled.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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