respectability

Example Sentences

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“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

One victim's family says Bush operated behind a veneer of respectability.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

There was something else that academics offered Epstein beyond a veneer of respectability: access.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

It challenged the idea of domestic respectability, treating the house as an open-ended experiment rather than a finished object.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Like his lesser satellites, over the years Tom-Carl had assumed an ill-fitting air of respectability and did not care to be reminded of his nefarious beginnings.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee