Use "disrepute" in a sentence

1. Bush procured that sensational win over an Europeanized Kerry in spite of an undeniable and, in my view, shameful machination of the United Nations, which is in disrepute because of scandals such as the oil for food program, and the media that has become, from beginning to end, the “misinformation column” for the Democrat candidate’s campaign

2. Sadly, owing to the faux-surrender popularised by pop Christianity, jailhouse conversions and twelve step programs, this vital and necessary growth stage has fallen into disrepute and is widely scorned as the desperate act of the stupid, the frightened and the weak

3. The greed and pettiness of those priests and monks had been grating on Nancy for months, apart from bringing popular disrepute to their church for decades now

4. You will then have to explain to your police commissioner and to your mayor why they have to spend millions in legal fees, on top of attracting disrepute on your tourist industry, when everything could have been settled quietly to our mutual satisfaction

5. heavy responsibility not only for the disrepute into which faith itself has fallen

6. The game that seemed for many years to define the concept of fairness and honourable play has slipped into terrible disrepute

7. The mistake at present is, that those who study philosophy have no vocation, and this, as I was before saying, is the reason why she has fallen into disrepute: her true sons should take her by the hand and not bastards

8. She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed herself to indigence

9. He deprecated the course of debate, and the irritation which prevailed in the House, as tending to bring this body into disrepute, &c