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
If she has no wool for the darning and the stockings are dark we can blacken our ankles with shoe polish for the respectability that’s in it.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
The emptiness of conventional respectabilities and pieties and the futility of the spasmodic attempts at heroism are obvious enough.
From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers
What a life was hers in this little world of choking respectabilities!
From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by George Gissing
Your eyes betrayed it, and the corners of your mouth went up the least little bit, as if they'd go further up before they went down—as if you'd laugh away many solemn respectabilities.
From The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
Now fifty patented, incorporated respectabilities will put the curb on, will hamper the expansion.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
