respectability

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

Spoofs like best musical nominee “Titanique,” a zany burlesque of James Cameron’s “Titanic” and all things Celine Dion, found new respectability on Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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

Like many other pseudosciences, numerology is ancient, and acquires some respectability from its religious associations.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

To secure such respectabilities in death he passed a most respectable life, a more respectable-looking individual never was seen.

From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Thomas Seccombe

"I see plainly," he says, "that our society is as bigoted to the respectabilities of religion and education as yours."

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

That is enough to make a man brush away all the respectabilities and proprieties and graces, and look at the black reality beneath, and wail out 'of whom I am chief.'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

What a life was hers in this little world of choking respectabilities!

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing