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Disreputable vs Deplorable - What's the difference?

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Disreputable is a related term of deplorable.


As adjectives the difference between disreputable and deplorable

is that disreputable is not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable while deplorable is lamentable, regrettable.

As a noun disreputable

is a person who is not reputable.

disreputable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is not reputable.

    • deplorable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
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  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic