respectability
Example Sentences
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His job is to find someone to lead a 3-14 team, outscored by 191 points this season, and drag it back to something approaching respectability.
It challenged the idea of domestic respectability, treating the house as an open-ended experiment rather than a finished object.
From Los Angeles Times
He later won election to the British Parliament, a marker of respectability.
Mr. Carlson, by contrast, can be smooth and affable with an air of perfect respectability.
Ms. Cheever began to understand that his stories came at least partly from the tension between his private feelings of shame and the effort to maintain his respectability as a literary grandee and paterfamilias.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
