respectable
Example Sentences
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One of the largest regulated utilities in the country has delivered a very respectable 26% return over the past year and pays a dividend yield of close to 3%.
From Barron's
“The Complex” works instead by painstaking accretion—or rather, by erosion, recording in granular detail all the lies and violations that eat away at the Chopras’ respectable facade.
In spite of that, the economy grew a respectable 2.2% last year.
Having been marooned at the back, Sauber became more respectable performers, and their veteran German driver Nico Hulkenberg even finally scored a podium after 16 years of trying in last year's British Grand Prix.
From BBC
Yet, she met respectable friends in Rochester, and grew from a child bride into a competent woman.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
