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schiester, scheister, etc.) is a slang word for someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law, sometimes...

called the Fighting Cocks Tavern, a fun house visited by the city's most disreputable residents. It was fanned by winds south west of the city and spread rapidly...

government has ceased to exist by the events of Creature in the Case. The Disreputable Dog is a remnant of the immortal 'Kibeth'; but refuses until the end...

political office. When the Republicans nominated a slate of particularly disreputable machine politicians for the 1881 election, Democrats saw an opportunity...

He said that for prostitutes, it was "no difficult task to secure a disreputable citizen who will marry a prostitute" from Europe. From the beginning...

of the family—the respectable (that is, legitimate) Rougons and the disreputable (illegitimate) Macquarts—over five generations. In the preface to the...

Eban argued, in a typical expression of this intellectually and morally disreputable position (Eban, Congress Bi-Weekly, March 30, 1973). But that no longer...

composed of the terms cuck "someone whose partner is unfaithful" and quean "disreputable woman". A cuckquean fetishist is aware of her partner's activity, sometimes...

the old custom of the kingdom is almost fallen into disuse, or become disreputable; remedial when made to supply such defects, and abridge such superfluities...

prostitute or entertainer lost her social standing and became infamis, "disreputable"; by making her body publicly available, she had in effect surrendered...

and were practicing members of artisan guilds. They also worked in disreputable occupations: entertainers, tavern keepers, and prostitutes; a class where...

as suggested by Gibbon, Vetter, and others, a legendary double of the disreputable bishop, George of Cappadocia, the Arian opponent of St. Athanasius."...

rebel leadership was unimpressive by the standards of the time, even disreputable, but were united by their hatred of John; Robert Fitzwalter, later elected...

the Wallmakers; Mogget, a bound servant of the Abhorsen line; and the Disreputable Dog. The novel is named after the position of Abhorsen in the book's...

the Ruby Oliver quartet (which begins with The Boyfriend List), The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and We Were Liars. Jenkins grew up in...

Pharisees are described as asking Jesus why he is having a meal with such disreputable people. The reply Jesus gave is now well known: "it is not the healthy...

a voter" parodies the anti-World War I song "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier". A chorus of disreputable men support a lone anti-suffrage woman....

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is a young-adult novel written by American author E. Lockhart. It was published on the 25 March 2008 by...

northern part was seen by the more populated southern part as somewhat disreputable, "too much controlled by the wild folks, cattle ranchers, fur traders"...

flamenco guitarist Juan Serrano, this was because flamenco was considered disreputable and they did not want to embarrass their families: We have to start with...