respectable
Example Sentences
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Though more respectable than factory work, pay remained low and advancement rare.
"I was raised to be very ladylike and considerate of others, and respectable. My mother definitely would have liked me to go into more a feminine field," she says.
From BBC
He moved home and began custom building lifted trucks — pickup trucks with super tall wheels — and posted videos about them on TikTok, eventually amassing a respectable 60,000 followers.
From New York Times
After about a year they moved back to New York, where Mr. Gross submitted cartoons to The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as less respectable magazines like Rascal.
From New York Times
He had had the distinction of having cable news' top ratings for his time period while scaring away most respectable companies from buying time on his show.
From Salon
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