Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Respectability.
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Examples
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But, it kind of taints the 'respectableness' of it's history.
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Any faint distant traces of respectableness that were left to our clothes were soon covered up by the dust of the road and by some of the ginger-beer bursting through the violence of the cart, which had no springs.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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When they came back to the Gilson hedge, he stopped at the gate, with terrific respectableness removed his cap.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Any faint distant traces of respectableness that were left to our clothes were soon covered up by the dust of the road and by some of the ginger-beer bursting through the violence of the cart, which had no springs.
New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891
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Now, an old man like Knuckles, he's mighty close -- he don't talk out his mind like a young fellow that's full of infections -- a young fellow like me, that knows how to look 'pon a handsome young wife, and treat her with proper respectableness.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series 1845
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Europhiles are all about pretenses as well as creating and maintaining the aura of respectableness, indispensability and indisputability around their pretenses.
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None of them, except myself, from the nature of my functions, and Mr. Collins, from the antiquity of his service and the respectableness of his character, approached Mr. Falkland, but at stated seasons and for a very short interval.
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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I am going, through no fault of my own, whatsoever, to scale back my vices to something that resembles respectableness.
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"Come hither, lad," he said, leading the bee - hunter by a button to the land, and speaking apart in a tone of admonition and confidence; "much has passed atween us on the pleasures and respectableness of a life in the woods, or on the borders.
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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The antiquity of Mr. Craven’s family, which had for many generations represented a neighbouring country, (as he at that time did,) his vast fortune, and the respectableness of his character, appeared to justify these suppositions, and, having at first rendered the report probable, occasioned it to be generally admitted as certain.
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