respectability

Example Sentences

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U.S. backing gave them respectability and visibility, helping some to overcome their pariah status.

From The Wall Street Journal

She dubs the all-women’s institution a “kiln of respectability” and doesn’t mind the strict curfews and dress code because she revels in being part of the powerful “Spelman sisterhood.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Willis published an essay, “Post-Mortuum Soiree,” in the next issue of his Home Journal, “the ‘demonstration,’ … is of sufficient extent and respectability to warrant grave attention.

From Literature

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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