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

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

He later won election to the British Parliament, a marker of respectability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

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

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

I, meanwhile, had been so afraid of floundering, so eager for respectability and a way to pay the bills, that I’d marched myself unthinkingly into the law.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama