respectability

Example Sentences

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“It throws an air of respectability about five-dollar dealings that are sheer gambling,” the Inquirer wrote Sept. 25, 1878.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Williamson chose this route for “Unconventional” because he wanted to make an unabashedly queer relationship show “written without respectability politics in mind, so I’d need to find a different pathway.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

It often arrives dressed in intellectual respectability framed as concern, skepticism or “just asking questions.”

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

Those who found this last story less than credible nonetheless recognized the usefulness of keeping the strange girl outside the circle of respectability.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead