respectability
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This last-minute legitimization would later allow Sand to legally inherit her father’s estate; it also established the uneasy balance between respectability and impropriety that would come to dominate her life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Noah Cross, the archvillain of the movie “Chinatown,” had the definitive line on how old age brings respectability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
One of Christianity’s deepest convictions is that social standing, respectability and material recognition are not the measures of a life.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 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
That is to say, my mother responded willfully to the respectability heaped upon her.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Return to Table of Contents Everybody must have had some trouble in his time with imperfect respectabilities.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
It is not reckless of conduct, but surely enormously reckless of decorum, with its conventions and respectabilities clustering around the status quo.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
What a life was hers in this little world of choking respectabilities!
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
Its respectabilities, its orthodoxies, he could no longer abide.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
