Both Uses of
reputable
in
Dubliners
- Mrs. Mooney had first sent her daughter to be a typist in a corn-factor's office but, as a disreputable sheriff's man used to come every other day to the office, asking to be allowed to say a word to his daughter, she had taken her daughter home again and set her to do housework.†
Chpt 7
- First of all there was her disreputable father and then her mother's boarding house was beginning to get a certain fame.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(reputable) trusted and respected (having a good reputation)