Sample Sentences for
repute
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repute as in:  of good repute

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    The island fortress of House Targaryen had a sinister repute.†  (source)
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    His daughters were dutiful and kind and of good character and repute.†  (source)
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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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    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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    "Weasley has brought the Ministry into disrepute," Mr. Malfoy told our reporter.  (source)
    disrepute = bad reputation
    standard 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)
    standard 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 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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    'If there's so much of it, it couldn't be very valuable,' was the general opinion, and it soon fell into disrepute.†  (source)
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    I have heard much of him (as who has not?) and Pauline wrote me only last week that he is a man of bad repute and not even received by his own family in Charleston, except of course by his heartbroken mother.†  (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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    They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute.†  (source)
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    I don't know where being a servant came into disrepute.†  (source)
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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.  (source)
repute = consider
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