repute
estimation in the view of others; reputation: persons of good repute.
favorable reputation; good name; public respect.
to consider or believe (a person or thing) to be as specified; regard (usually used in the passive): He was reputed to be a millionaire.
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How to use repute in a sentence
For Zuzia Whelan and her 80-year-old grandmother, this salad is as important as any dish of repute.
Some of these critics, notably Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, and Eric Rohmer, later became filmmakers of international repute.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTErik Rush, a semiliterate “pundit” of no repute, tweeted that Saudis should be aggressively profiled at American airports.
Boston Marathon Bombing Media Errors Pile Up, as Does the Outrage | Michael Moynihan | April 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTName Synonyms; reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute.
Rogue L.A. Cop’s Facebook Manifesto: ‘You Will Now Live the Life of Prey’ | The Daily Beast | February 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST“Neighbors of the Anderson's [ sic] advised that family was of good repute,” Caulfield wrote in a memo.
A 15-year-old girl is “a five-foot-ten-inch mantis of legendary poise and ballet repute.”
His Indian repute had not preceded him to such degree as to make the way easy for him through the London crowd.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingMrs. Tremayne, I am a man of substantial position, and perhaps I may say of some repute in serious circles.
First Plays | A. A. MilneAccordingly the Shasters were, for a time, in high repute among those who knew very little about them.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardIn Venezuela it is an important article of agriculture, and the product is of fine quality and in good repute in Europe.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Joke indeed there is none, but it is the popular repute or suspicion of a jest that exercises this fascination.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian Sharman
British Dictionary definitions for repute
/ (rɪˈpjuːt) /
(tr; usually passive) to consider (a person or thing) to be as specified: he is reputed to be intelligent
public estimation; reputation: a writer of little repute
Origin of repute
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