respectability

Example Sentences

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“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

He later won election to the British Parliament, a marker of respectability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Williamson chose this route for “Unconventional” because he wanted to make an unabashedly queer relationship show “written without respectability politics in mind, so I’d need to find a different pathway.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

I saw her in a black gown and widow’s cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë