respectability

Example Sentences

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Respectability and fear made secrecy feel like protection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

“Anti Social Black Girl: It’s like, Respectability politics? I don’t owe you kindness.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2022

“The best way is to harmonize our feelings as much as possible and to treat all men respectfully. Respectability will always gain respect.”

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Respectability came along with rules meant to curb the excesses of early fights and getting approval from each state’s athletic commission.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2016

Both of these are accepted: Respectability is different from what it was fifty years ago.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner