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Definition
trusted and respected (having a good reputation)
- The man would soon show himself disreputable enough to make people disbelieve him.Book 5 — The Dead Hand (97% in)
- But the people in manufacturing towns are always disreputable.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (92% in)
- Garth may wonder, as he must have done before, at this disreputable fellow's claiming intimacy with me; but he will know nothing.Book 7 — Two Temptations (60% in)
- I shall be fortunate if gossip does not make me the most disreputable person in the whole affair.Book 8 — Sunset and Sunrise (52% in)
There are no more uses of "reputable" in Middlemarch.
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