respectability
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The headline notwithstanding, Mr. Posner allowed that “obviously there is a spectrum of respectability here.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
He desires respectability, but savors the buzz, the camaraderie — the honor among thieves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
"The picture they tried to present to the outside world was one of respectability," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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
They had to hide their desires behind a veneer of respectability.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Torquay is the chosen home of the proprieties, the respectabilities, and all the conventions.
From Sacred and Profane Love by Arnold Bennett
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
In short, these creatures want art not for its own sake, but for the sake of excitement which the respectabilities of society do not permit their obtaining, except in imaginative form.
From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee
Return to Table of Contents Everybody must have had some trouble in his time with imperfect respectabilities.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
