respectability
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Noah Cross, the archvillain of the movie “Chinatown,” had the definitive line on how old age brings respectability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
U.S. backing gave them respectability and visibility, helping some to overcome their pariah status.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Bakary Sambe of the Timbuktu Institute think-tank in Dakar told AFP that "Dicko is a figure who enjoys both religious respectability and popular support".
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 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
Laws, conventions, mean respectabilities, seemed only cobwebs now.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
We are apt to be rather down on city foplings and soft-handed respectabilities.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
It is a sad state of affairs, reached by respectably villainous fathers the world over, when the son demonstrates the mathematical law of progression by becoming a villain without regard for the respectabilities.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
The relation of the village respectabilities to the county families, the relation of the county families to the great ducal magnate, are all given with curious precision and subtle discrimination.
From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison
