respectability
Example Sentences
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He later won election to the British Parliament, a marker of respectability.
Shunning him is arguably one of the most important things — maybe No. 1 — that the California GOP could do immediately to halt its downward slide and begin the climb back up to relevance and respectability.
From Los Angeles Times
But, due in no small part to the well-documented vein of insecurity that fuels the American right, their audience nonetheless craves the trappings of respectability.
From Salon
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
