respectability

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Seamer Matt Henry took 4-43 as the West Indies top order once again failed to fire, with only Roston Chase's 38 in the middle order giving the total any sense of respectability at Seddon Park.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

Mr. Carlson, by contrast, can be smooth and affable with an air of perfect respectability.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 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

It often arrives dressed in intellectual respectability framed as concern, skepticism or “just asking questions.”

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

Then again, a pigeon talking at all doesn’t conjure a portrait of solemn respectability.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi