respectability

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

Gautam Mukhopadhaya, another former Indian ambassador to Myanmar, said Min Aung Hlaing "is trying to acquire greater regional and international respectability as an elected president".

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

Bakary Sambe of the Timbuktu Institute think-tank in Dakar told AFP that "Dicko is a figure who enjoys both religious respectability and popular support".

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 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

Buckingham habitually violated the traditional and established decorums of the press; he was familiar, chatty, saucy, anecdotical, and sadly wanting in respect for the respectabilities of the most respectable town in the universe.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

It is a sad state of affairs, reached by respectably villainous fathers the world over, when the son demonstrates the mathematical law of progression by becoming a villain without regard for the respectabilities.

From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.

The Anti-slavery question is not one which the Tract Society can exclude by triumphant majorities, nor put to shame by a comparison of respectabilities.

From The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by Lowell, James Russell

He knew how such contact would damage him in the eyes of all the parochial respectabilities, and was anxious to do his best to get him clear of it.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas