respectability
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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
In contrast to the air of respectability which greeted grieving families, Moore says the rear of Legacy's premises was like "something out of a horror movie".
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
Plus, a dowry, especially a generous dowry, is a sign of respectability.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Its respectabilities, its orthodoxies, he could no longer abide.
From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
He was in point of fact the soul of sobriety and the mirror of all the respectabilities in his serious dissenting world.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Henry Noel Brailsford
And we, perhaps, in our serene respectabilities, shrink back and wonder at it.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
They were too terribly diabolical to care whether Bunyan blasphemed in solitude or in the presence of human respectabilities.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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