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disrepute

UK/dɪsɹɪˈpjuːt/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,450 of 15,258neutral

Disrepute is the state of having lost people's good opinion. Fall into disrepute, bring the game into disrepute, a name in disrepute.

Bringing the game into disrepute is a real disciplinary charge in sport and covers conduct nobody wrote a specific rule against. It is the negative of repute, and both are formal.

Definitions of disrepute

  1. 1noundisreputeThe state of having lost people's good opinion.C1

    “After the poisoning scandal, the old restaurant fell into disrepute and soon closed.”

disrepute is a state.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    reputō — to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider

  2. Old French

    reputer

  3. English

    repute

  4. English, today

    disrepute

Built from

  • re- · Latin — again
  • putō · Latin — to think

From dis- + repute. repute comes from Old French reputer, from Latin reputō (“to count over, reckon, calculate, compute, think over, consider”), from re- (“again”) + putō (“to think”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

disrepute in the wild

  • Ussher's work fell into disrepute in the 19th century.

    Ussher chronology

  • New eugenics purports to distinguish itself from the forms of eugenics practiced and advocated in the 20th century, which fell into disrepute after World War II.

    New eugenics

  • The Collins test for section 24(2) was developed for determining if the administration of justice was brought into disrepute by the inclusion of the evidence.

    R v Collins (1987)

  • The team disbanded after accusations that they were bringing the game into disrepute and receiving payment for playing.

    The Zulus

  • Bremner copied him, and the two players were afterwards charged with bringing football into disrepute.

    1974 FA Charity Shield

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the putō family

reputationdispute

disrepute — used about once every 23,598 pages · #13,450 · point at the bar for the others

  • disreputable