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  • n  the state of being held in high esteem and honor
  • v  look on as or consider
    He is reputed to be intelligent

  • Subsequent huge profits in shipping, agriculture, oil, mining, hotels and cement won him great repute as a daring plunger.
  • Can he win the White House in a year when his party is in widespread ill repute, and is led by the most unpopular incumbent President in the history of polling?.
  • France does have composers and conductors of international repute, but no equivalents of such 20th century giants as Debussy, Satie, Ravel and Milhaud.
Quotes

  • Jody Williams in Baku Today
    While so many of the worlds arms cause so much human misery, cluster munitions deserve to be singled out as an especially pernicious weapon of ill repute,Williams said.

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