respectability
Example Sentences
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Dig beneath that and - barring a trip to Fantasyland in which Spurs win the Champions League - the rest of this season is now a quest for respectability, and for Frank, survival.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
