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Definition
the state of one's reputation — can be high/good or low/badA less common, meaning of repute is "good reputation." It is in that context that disrepute (bad reputation) makes sense.
- Neighbors complained that it was a house of ill repute.
repute = the state of one's reputation
- a man of good repute
- "Weasley has brought the Ministry into disrepute," Mr. Malfoy told our reporter.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- all of excellent reputeNathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
- Sir Mulberry Hawk lived abroad for some years, courted and caressed, and in high repute as a fine dashing fellow.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- Five were bankers of great repute, three were nationally known newspapermen, and eleven were industrialists of great repute and wealth.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- Sometimes, at hotels of ill-repute, he would register, with dark buried glee, as "Robert Browning," "Alfred Tennyson," and "William Wordsworth."Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Every hotel depends upon the repute of its patrons.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- That kind of disrepute we would not care for.Homer -- The Odyssey
- '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.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute.Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- O, sir, I do; and will repute you ever The patron of my life and liberty.William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
- The island fortress of House Targaryen had a sinister repute.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- There are houses of ill repute in Kingston, as everywhere, but he cannot avail himself of them as he might in London or Paris.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- "Then this man Duane enjoys rather an unusual repute west of the Pecos?" inquired Duane.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- Littlefinger had once quipped that Ser Bonifer must have gelded the riders too, so spotless was their repute.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Mr Merdle's is a name of—ha—world-wide repute.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- A horse-wrangler named Hurley, a man of bad repute, as much outlaw as anything, took up the bantering.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- He said he wanted to 'dismiss all this meaningless nonsense which long has dominated metaphysical thought and brought it into disrepute.'Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- Helen knew her uncle had the repute of dealing hard with his men, but here she was reassured and pleased at the twinkle in his eye.Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
disrepute = bad reputation
repute = reputation