Sample Sentences for
reputable
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    I'm saying that if you want to help, send money to a reputable relief organization.  (source)
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    For them to hold themselves up as a reputable news show is beyond belief, and irresponsible.  (source)
    reputable = worthy of trust and respect
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    …those with shortwave radios claimed that even the most reputable international broadcasters had acknowledged the doors existed, and indeed were being discussed by world leaders as a major global crisis.  (source)
    reputable = trusted and respected
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    My confidence in you has been seriously diminished since I heard about the disreputable activities in which you engaged on Thursday last.  (source)
    disreputable = not worthy of respect or trust
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disreputable means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of reputable as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Poirot knew the name as that of one of the best-known and most reputable private detective agencies in New York.  (source)
    reputable = respected (with good reputation)
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    Such things as could be said for him were said,—how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably.  (source)
    reputably = in a respected manner
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    He had refused to comb his hair, on grounds that even his scalp was sore, and he looked a wild and woolly sight, red spikes sticking up above a swollen purple face with one eye squeezed disreputably shut.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disreputably means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of reputably as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.  (source)
    disreputability = the trait of not being trusted or respected
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disreputability means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of reputability as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    and This sofa is in a terrible state of disreputableness.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disreputableness means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of reputableness as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    His had always been a most respectable house—in a disreputable neighbourhood.  (source)
    disreputable = disrespected (not trusted and of bad reputation)
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    Thus the Puritan elders in their black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats, smiled not unbenignantly at the clamour and rude deportment of these jolly seafaring men; and it excited neither surprise nor animadversion when so reputable a citizen as old Roger Chillingworth, the physician, was seen to enter the market-place in close and familiar talk with the commander of the questionable vessel.  (source)
    reputable = respected (with good reputation)
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    Without an estate, or any gainful employment, By constant labor and industry, with God's blessing, They maintained a large family comfortably, and brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren reputably.†  (source)
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    There was Jem Rodney, a known poacher, and otherwise disreputable: he had often met Marner in his journeys across the fields, and had said something jestingly about the weaver's money; nay, he had once irritated Marner, by lingering at the fire when he called to light his pipe, instead of going about his business.  (source)
    disreputable = person who is not trusted or respected
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