respectability
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At a time when other sitcoms occasionally tackled social issues in “very special” episodes and “The Cosby Show” hewed to its namesake star’s dedication to respectability politics, “A Different World” regularly confronted harder topics.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026
He desires respectability, but savors the buzz, the camaraderie — the honor among thieves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“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
One victim's family says Bush operated behind a veneer of respectability.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Black community leaders launched a campaign for respectability.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Laws, conventions, mean respectabilities, seemed only cobwebs now.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
One great source of perplexity in the case, is the excessive urbanity of the imperfect respectabilities themselves.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
The censor is thinking, presumably, of immediate law and order, with its attendant conventions and respectabilities.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
The degree to which one is incommoded with imperfect respectabilities, depends of course a good deal upon the extent of his good-nature, or his dislike of coming to strong measures in social life.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
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