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repute

[ri-pyoot] / rɪˈpyut /






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Snooker clubs were enjoying a boom, but they often remained places of ill repute, and Virgo recognised there was historical justification for that.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

Times Festival of Books, Amanda Knox spoke about her connection with Monica Lewinsky and ‘the sisterhood of ill repute.’

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

Having been thoroughly Islamized, Ghana began to produce Muslim scholars, lawyers, and Quran readers of some repute, many traveling to Islamic Spain to study or going on pilgrimage to Mecca.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Open-city proponent, former city councilman, lawyer noted for defending houses of ill repute, casually smoked a corncob pipe.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2023

“Hardly a day passes without him being invited to visit the studios of painters of repute, or people come to him,” Theo writes to Ma.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman