respectability
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In the past, winks at some of the fouler ideas out there was enough to titillate the audience while keeping up the pretense of respectability.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 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
“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
The climate was right to begin a program that would lead them to economic respectability.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
Society is not so very exacting, but it revenges itself on people who defy the respectabilities.
From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine
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
Laws, conventions, mean respectabilities, seemed only cobwebs now.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
They were too terribly diabolical to care whether Bunyan blasphemed in solitude or in the presence of human respectabilities.
From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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