respectable
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The trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against what is important.
From Time Magazine Archive
He introduced her to his set�the respectables of Gopher Prairie, older, sadder and more civilized.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last fortnight San Antonio's new Mayor Maury Maverick solemnly advised a group of local respectables that they were violating the law by banqueting out-of-doors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did you ever know the respectables prosper when they allied themselves with the vulgar?
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Lang, Andrew
He, the Sheykh of the Dragomans, the respectable of respectables, made so by especial favour of the Blessed Virgin, to hear such words from one of those very English whose esteem upheld him!
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
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