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If a person, a bar, a company, or a method is disreputable, people think it is shady: dishonest, low, perhaps against the rules. It is about bad name, not only bad manners. A disreputable neighbourhood in older writing often meant a place the “respectable” would not be seen; today the word still carries that of moral judgement, so it can sound a little old-fashioned or colourful. You can also say a disreputable-looking coat or grin — not criminal, just not quite proper. Formal-to-neutral; in talk, people often say shady or has a bad name instead.
聲名狼藉的、不入流的（帶道德評價，不只是「不受歡迎」）
組成dis- (the opposite of) + reputable (having a good name). Reputable itself is repute (what people say of you) + -able.
同家族的字
- reputablethe good-name opposite
- reputethe name people give you
- reputationthat name, as a noun people use every day
- disreputethe state of having lost that good name
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
disreputableadj/dɪsˈɹɛpjʊtəbəl/
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Not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable.
- They publish a bi-monthly newsletter, The Pen and Quill, which provides needed addresses, facisimiles of autographs, interesting articles, promotes philographic conventions and exposes disreputable dealers and forgers.
- “I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’
disreputablenoun/dɪsˈɹɛpjʊtəbəl/
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A person who is not reputable.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。