unrespectable

Example Sentences

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Indeed, the good, cheap, unrespectable, unambitious variety of scare flick has mostly disappeared from the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

Meanwhile, Keeler was in a tradition of unrespectable women in the public eye that goes back to Restoration royal mistresses such as Nell Gwyn.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2013

The Social Network, in its high-mindedness, monopolised the subject of the web and stole Middle Men's thunder, making it look dated and unrespectable.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011

Yet this unrespectable old man was capable of dazzling technical feats which, far from being mere Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone declamation, were filled with grave and intense emotion.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am more sophisticated now; The Lady Who Tells Me Things says that the respectable women nowadays, out-rouge, out-crimp and out-lace the unrespectable.

From The Window at the White Cat by Rinehart, Mary Roberts