Disrepute - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: disreputeDisreputability
The state of being disreputable...
Disreputable
Not reputable of bad repute not in esteem dishonorable disgracing the reputation tending to bring into disesteem as it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean the lewd and the profane...
Disreputably
In a disreputable manner...
Disreputation
Loss or want of reputation or good name dishonor disrepute disesteem...
Stigma
Stigma, denotes loss of confidence by the employer amount to 'stigma', Kamal Kishore Lakshman v. Pan American World Airways, AIR 1987 SC 229: (1987) 1 SCC 146.Stigma, is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign etc., indicting that something is not considered normal or standard (Webster's New World Dictionary), Dipti Prakash Banerjee v. Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, (1999) 3 SCC 60.Stigma, is understood to be something that is detraction from the character or reputation of a person. It is blemish, imputation, mark or label indicating a deviation from a norm, mere description of background fact cannot be called as stigma. State of U.P. v. Ram Bachan Tripathi, AIR 2005 SC 3212.--in the absence of a statutory definition of the word 'stigma', its meaning as available in dictionaries. According to Webster's New World Dictionary it is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign, etc. in...
Contempt of court
Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt.--A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without such gross insolence or direct opposition, plainly tend to create a universal disregard of their authority. Contempts may be divided into acts of contempt committed in the Court itself (in facie curi') and out of Court. Among the former are all unseemly behaviour (for which, and which only (see Reg. v. Lefroy, (1873) LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1888), as talking boisterously, applauding any part of the proceedings, refusing to be sworn or to answer a question as a witness, interfering with the business of the Court on the part of a person who has no right to...
Calumniate
To accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense or of something disreputable to slander to libel...
discreditable
Not creditable injurious to reputation disgraceful disreputable...
discredited
being brought into disrepute as a discredited politician...
Disesteem
Want of esteem low estimation inclining to dislike disfavor disrepute...
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