All 4 Uses of
reputable
in
Middlemarch
- The man would soon show himself disreputable enough to make people disbelieve him.†
Chpt 5 *disreputable = not trusted or respected -- especially thought to engage in illegal activitiesstandard 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.
- But the people in manufacturing towns are always disreputable.†
Chpt 6
- Garth may wonder, as he must have done before, at this disreputable fellow's claiming intimacy with me; but he will know nothing.†
Chpt 7
- I shall be fortunate if gossip does not make me the most disreputable person in the whole affair.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
trusted and respected (having a good reputation)