Definition of "disrepute" []

• Damage to or loss of reputation. (noun)

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• "Community as the basis for Movement-making is in disrepute, replaced by mailings, marketing and polling, Twitter and Facebook."
• "The only disrepute is through toadying management trying their utmost to pretend all is fine and dandy in the ranks, and present to ‘the public’ a false and toothy-grinned image of their local utopia."
• "Pei writes, the potato, for its part, was in disrepute some centuries ago."