respectability

The headline notwithstanding, Mr. Posner allowed that “obviously there is a spectrum of respectability here.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Spoofs like best musical nominee “Titanique,” a zany burlesque of James Cameron’s “Titanic” and all things Celine Dion, found new respectability on Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

One of Christianity’s deepest convictions is that social standing, respectability and material recognition are not the measures of a life.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

Gautam Mukhopadhaya, another former Indian ambassador to Myanmar, said Min Aung Hlaing "is trying to acquire greater regional and international respectability as an elected president".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

“Not improving the general respectability of Zaire,” I said.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

He had wrapped himself in that impenetrable mantle of cold scorn, and thus he watched with a moody air the crowd of umbrella-carrying respectabilities, who hurried on their way without a thought of him.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 by Various

It is a sad state of affairs, reached by respectably villainous fathers the world over, when the son demonstrates the mathematical law of progression by becoming a villain without regard for the respectabilities.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

Now fifty patented, incorporated respectabilities will put the curb on, will hamper the expansion.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

The degree to which one is incommoded with imperfect respectabilities, depends of course a good deal upon the extent of his good-nature, or his dislike of coming to strong measures in social life.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers