What's the difference between irrefutable and irreputable?

Irrefutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TV thrillers offer the forensic promise that a crime will always be solved, and a random-stop DNA swab can irrefutably convict an unsuspected murderer.
  • (2) "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said.
  • (3) It has been the experience of major urban EMS systems that field participation by physicians has lent irrefutable credibility to the authority of medical directors.
  • (4) In Professor Barnes’s report we now have irrefutable evidence that cannabis is an effective medicine for very large numbers of people,” Meacher told the Guardian.
  • (5) Sex-reversal of these individuals has been irrefutably demonstrated through genetic, cytogenetic, enzymatic and immunological studies.
  • (6) What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (7) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (8) Carcinogen-DNA adduct formation, presumed to constitute tumorigenic initiation, provides irrefutable evidence of exposure and some indication of biologically effective dose to target tissues.
  • (9) What is denied most sharply invariably turns out to be irrefutably true.
  • (10) "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (11) Clearly this World Cup has elevated this discussion to a level that can no longer be ignored and the facts are irrefutable.” Orsatti said Fifpro wants an “independently managed sideline concussion protocol”, pointing to the growing body of evidence that supports this and the experiences of other sports, in particular the NFL in the US.
  • (12) He asked the Russian authorities to “either release [Sentsov] or try him only for what you can prove irrefutably”.
  • (13) But there is at least a strong argument to make, if not an irrefutable one, that the Swedish government is able to offer precisely the guarantee that both Assange and Ecuadorean authorities have sought in order to enable him immediately to travel to Sweden to face the sex assault allegations against him.
  • (14) The influence of Sydenham's medicine can be seen in the following areas of Locke's philosophy: his "plain historical method"; the emphasis on observation and sensory experience instead of seeking the essence of things; the rejection of hypotheses and principles; the refusal of research into final causes and inner mechanisms; the ideal of irrefutable evidence and skepticism on the possibilities of certainty in science.
  • (15) New statutes concerning brain death imply that irrefutable technical evidence is readily available to diagnose brain death, that brain death is as valid a sign of death as any former criteria, and that in certain situtations brain death must be used to pronounce death.
  • (16) To argue anything else is to make a mockery of the legal system in general and the concept (and irrefutable value) of prisoner rehabilitation in particular.
  • (17) Because, while I could put forward a decent argument on why Duncan Smith is not a great conceiver, I can put forward an irrefutable one that he is a hopeless implementer.
  • (18) The prosecution submitted that the evidence irrefutably proved the case against the accused but the suspects pleaded not guilty, claiming they had been framed by police.
  • (19) The failure of Trigynon cannot be irrefutable ascribed to minocycline as unintended pregnancy also occurs while using OCs without antibiotics.
  • (20) The evidence that mass loss in Greenland and west Antarctica has been accelerating since the early 1990s is irrefutable.

Irreputable


Definition:

  • (a.) Disreputable.

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