respectability

Example Sentences

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Bakary Sambe of the Timbuktu Institute think-tank in Dakar told AFP that "Dicko is a figure who enjoys both religious respectability and popular support".

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

Dig beneath that and - barring a trip to Fantasyland in which Spurs win the Champions League - the rest of this season is now a quest for respectability, and for Frank, survival.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

It challenged the idea of domestic respectability, treating the house as an open-ended experiment rather than a finished object.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

That is to say, my mother responded willfully to the respectability heaped upon her.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover