reputein a sentence
repute as in: in good repute
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all of excellent repute (source)repute = reputation
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The island fortress of House Targaryen had a sinister repute.† (source)
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Caroline O'Day was one of those rare parochial-school girls who managed to wear her St. Michael's uniform—her pleated flannel skirt and matching burgundy knee socks— as if she were a cocktail waitress in lounge of questionable repute.† (source)
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Even women of ill repute.† (source)
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His daughters were dutiful and kind and of good character and repute.† (source)
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There are houses of ill repute in Kingston, as everywhere, but he cannot avail himself of them as he might in London or Paris.† (source)
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In addition, Milton Security had a cooperative arrangement with similar firms of good repute in Europe and the United States.† (source)
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"Weasley has brought the Ministry into disrepute," Mr. Malfoy told our reporter. (source)disrepute = bad reputationstandard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disrepute means not or opposite. It reverses the "good reputation" meaning of repute as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he; I shoot thee at the swain.† (source)
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Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company, Opinion, that did help me to the crown, Had still kept loyal to possession, And left me in reputeless banishment, A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.† (source)reputeless = without good reputationstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in reputeless means without and reverses the meaning of repute. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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There was among them a family of high repute, for it was large and wealthier than most, and it was ruled by a grandmother of the folk, stern and wise in old lore, such as they had.† (source)
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You're bringing our service into disrepute!† (source)disrepute = having a bad reputation
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At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute.† (source)
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He said he wanted to 'dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.'† (source)
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On this occasion my informant was a white naturalist of such repute that I could hardly doubt his word — though, come to think of it, I am hard put to explain just why his word should have any more weight than Ootek's, who was, after all, spiritually almost a wolf himself.† (source)
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'Well, Yossarian,' he began with an apologetic stammer, 'it would not help the war effort to bring Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn into disrepute now.† (source)
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rare meaning
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Brutus had rather be a villager
Than to repute himself a son of Rome
Under these hard conditions as this time
Is like to lay upon us.
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repute = claim
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