respectability
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Clawing back respectability is the new imperative on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
"The picture they tried to present to the outside world was one of respectability," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
I, meanwhile, had been so afraid of floundering, so eager for respectability and a way to pay the bills, that I’d marched myself unthinkingly into the law.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
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 James Russell Lowell
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
The censor is thinking, presumably, of immediate law and order, with its attendant conventions and respectabilities.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
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 James Parton
