reputable

in a sentence

I'm saying that if you want to help, send money to a reputable relief organization.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

For them to hold themselves up as a reputable news show is beyond belief, and irresponsible.  (source) Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy, 2014

…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) Moshin Hamid, Exit West, 2017

My confidence in you has been seriously diminished since I heard about the disreputable activities in which you engaged on Thursday last.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

Poirot knew the name as that of one of the best-known and most reputable private detective agencies in New York.  (source) Agatha Christie, Murder On The Orient Express, 1934

Such things as could be said for him were said,—how he had taken to industrious habits, and had thriven lawfully and reputably.  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

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) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

Yet a faint air of disreputability always clung to him.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

and This sofa is in a terrible state of disreputableness.†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

His had always been a most respectable house—in a disreputable neighbourhood.  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

A FORTNIGHT later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.  (source) Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886

On his decease, the business was continued by his widow, who, being born and bred in Holland, where, as I have been inform'd, the knowledge of accounts makes a part of female education, she not only sent me as clear a state as she could find of the transactions past, but continued to account with the greatest regularity and exactness every quarter afterwards, and managed the business with such success, that she not only brought up reputably a family of children, but, at the expiration of the term, was able to purchase of me the printing-house, and establish her son in it.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

Rather, from the strange fact that the robber had left no traces, and had happened to know the nick of time, utterly incalculable by mortal agents, when Silas would go away from home without locking his door, the more probable conclusion seemed to be, that his disreputable intimacy in that quarter, if it ever existed, had been broken up, and that, in consequence, this ill turn had been done to Marner by somebody it was quite in vain to set the constable after.  (source) George Eliot, Silas Marner, 1861