disrepute

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Examples of disrepute

  • Clairvoyance, which has been getting somewhat into disrepute, will probably be looking up hereafter.

  • Its hazards are great, especially now that popular writers have brought it into disrepute.

  • At the time, both welfare economics and public finance had fallen into relative disrepute.

  • The priest further alleged that women were bringing religion into disrepute by brawling inside the church.

  • But such a model overlooks the varieties of reasonableness, the plurality of moral outlooks, and the current state of disarray (and disrepute!) of ethical theory.

  • But they also worried that excessive attention to appearance could lead to racial disrepute.

  • I grant that the above argument is just the sort of thing that brings metaphysics into disrepute.

  • Then the notion fell into some disrepute.

  • Fenianism - in addition to proving politically inefficacious - had fallen into disrepute.

  • As soon as the courts started to put obstinate clergymen into prison, the whole thing fell into disrepute.

  • If the law is unclear or shrouded in mystery or complexity, it is more likely to be held in disrepute or ignored.

  • If one raises one's sights too high and tries to impose standards which are unenforceable, one brings the law into disrepute and the edifice crumbles.

  • But if fines are evaded on a large scale, the fine system is brought into disrepute.

  • Such a thing would bring world economics, into disrepute and mockery.

  • The present procedures are clumsy and expensive, and planning, as much as anything, brings the law into disrepute.

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