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  • adjective Worthy of or deserving respect; respectable.

Etymologies

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From respect +‎ -worthy.

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Examples

  • "respectworthy" from the standpoint of the plural domestic traditions as "sources of inspiration."

    Opinio Juris 2009

  • "respectworthy" from the standpoint of the plural domestic traditions as "sources of inspiration."

    Opinio Juris 2009

  • Bacevich is a former Lieutenant or Lieutenant Colonel, and Viet Nam veteran, so it is respectworthy in itself that he is intellectually honest (unlike so many of his military colleagues).

    Balkinization 2007

  • Where does the portrayal of blacks as respectworthy and/or not getting killed for the sake of white characters fit with how black people are actually treated?

    "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "Forbidden Kingdom" Steven Barnes 2008

  • He was a great, really admirable and respectworthy officer.

    Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point 2003

  • A man's morality, and the morality of a social group, can properly be seen as falling into two parts: first, a picture of the activities necessary to an ideal way of life which is aspired to, and, second, the unavoidable duties and necessities without which even the elements of human worth, and of a respectworthy way of life, are lacking.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

  • A reflective, critical scrutiny of moral claims is compatible, both logically and psychologically, with an overriding concern for a record of unmonstrous and respectworthy conduct, and of action that has never been mean or inhuman; and it may follow an assessment of the worth of persons which is not to be identified only with a computation of consequences and effects.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

  • The moral prohibitions constitute a kind of grammar of conduct, showing the elements out of which any fully respectworthy conduct, as one conceives it, must be built.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

  • One may on reflection find a particular set of prohibitions and injunctions, and a particular way of life protected by them, acceptable and respectworthy partly because this specifically conceived way of life, with its accompanying prohibitions, has in history appeared natural, and on the whole still feels natural, both to oneself and to others.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

  • Therefore a reasonable and reflective person will review the separate moral injunctions, which intuitively present themselves as having force and authority, as making a skeleton of an attainable, respectworthy, and preferred way of life.

    A Special Supplement: Morality & Pessimism Hampshire, Stuart 1973

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