Repute

//ɹɪˈpjuːt//

"Repute" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Fadil was a man of ill repute.

Sami was a man of ill repute.

It chanced that this Hugo came to love (if, indeed, so dark a passion may be known under so bright a name) the daughter of a yeoman who held lands near the Baskerville estate. But the young maiden, being discreet and of good repute, would ever avoid him, for she feared his evil name.

Tom is a public speaker of some repute.

Yanni frequented girls of ill repute.

Cottagers formed his only patients, and his Wessex-wide repute was among them alone.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

If the comparison could be made, I verily believe these would be found to be almost infinituple of the other; which ought therefore to be reputed as nothing.

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