1 the state of not being respected or trusted:
The judge’s behavior, he said, had brought the law profession into disrepute.
The present procedures are clumsy and expensive, and planning, as much as anything, brings the law into disrepute.
Such a thing would bring world economics, into disrepute and mockery.
But if fines are evaded on a large scale, the fine system is brought into disrepute.
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.
If the law is unclear or shrouded in mystery or complexity, it is more likely to be held in disrepute or ignored.
As soon as the courts started to put obstinate clergymen into prison, the whole thing fell into disrepute.
Fenianism - in addition to proving politically inefficacious - had fallen into disrepute.
Then the notion fell into some disrepute.