All 4 Uses of
reputable
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It was a small, grimy place, disreputable with age, battered by years of a losing struggle; above its entrance gate, like a new flag on the mast of a derelict, hung the sign: d'Anconia Copper.†
Chpt 1.5disreputable = 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.
- Then there followed the days and nights of searching a continent by phone, by wire, by plane-of looking at abandoned mines and at mines ready to be abandoned-of tense, rushed conferences held at tables hi the unlighted corners of disreputable restaurants.†
Chpt 1.10
- It was all right for a disreputable mediocrity like Simon Pritchett to drool it as some sort of woozy mysticism-nobody listened to him.†
Chpt 2.1
- I am unable to understand the attention you received in all the reputable academic magazines and how they could permit themselves to discuss your book seriously.†
Chpt 2.1 *reputable = respected (with good reputation)
Definition:
trusted and respected (having a good reputation)