respectability
Example Sentences
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He later won election to the British Parliament, a marker of respectability.
OpenAI’s nonprofit background nonetheless imbued it with a halo of respectability when the company released a working paper with researchers from UPenn last week.
From Los Angeles Times
“The engagement of those dizzy female ball nines was refused ... in the interest of respectability, and they will not play there.”
From Los Angeles Times
Many famous defendants have aimed for respectability, maturity, wide-eyed innocence or even pitiful decrepitude on their days in court.
From Washington Post
It’s fun to watch Odenkirk, who excelled at that character’s seedy patter, tackle literary criticism and tetchy, resentful respectability.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
