unrespectableadj.

1764 J. Hippisley Ess. i. 11 The slaves of a family are considered as no unrespectable part of it.

1765 J. Langhorne in W. Collins Poet. Wks. 164 The small Marino, which however unrespectable with regard to power or extent of territory, has, at least [etc.].

1802 J. West Infidel Father I. 41 With some pretty appellative..it did not look unrespectable at the bottom of a letter.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. xx. 281 Let those of the respectable press who are without sin, cast the first stone at the unrespectable.

1889 J. J. Thomas Froudacity 187 The handful of malcontents whose unrespectable grievance he holds up to public sympathy.

a1950 E. A. Milne Mod. Cosmol. (1950) i. 5 There was held at one time to be something unrespectable, something contaminating, about the use of the words infinite and infinitesimal.

1991 Hist. Workshop Spring 169 In the popular culture of medieval and early modern England, female brewers and tipplers were represented as unpleasant, unrespectable, and untrustworthy women.

2011 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Aug. 2 Emin is..a defiantly unrespectable woman who will never seem ‘middle-class’ however rich she becomes.

1832 F. Palgrave Observ. Princ. Establishm. New Munic. Corporations 13 The Operatives are not subjected to additional control because their earnings are less.., but because their temptations to unrespectability are greater.

1952 Stanford Law Rev. 4 576 Nonvoting common stock has about it an atmosphere of unrespectability.

2008 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 Oct. g2 The architects have been careful to keep intact the toughness and back-alley unrespectability of the original's exterior.