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semirespectable

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  • And my boxing career came to a sudden, albeit semirespectable, halt.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • And my boxing career came to a sudden, albeit semirespectable, halt.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • And my boxing career came to a sudden, albeit semirespectable, halt.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • Hell, I used to dread racing anything longer than a mile back then, and now I have a semirespectable half-marathon under my belt.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • It took him to a cookshop that stood on the very border of his neighborhood, halfway between the semirespectable district of entertainers, artists, musicians (not Bards, of course), Peddlers, and decorative craftsmen and their 'prentices, and his own less respectable part of town.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • It took him to a cookshop that stood on the very border of his neighborhood, halfway between the semirespectable district of entertainers, artists, musicians (not Bards, of course), Peddlers, and decorative craftsmen and their 'prentices, and his own less respectable part of town.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Vajder ignored the freelance seers, officers 'wives, and other respectable or semirespectable people and headed directly for a large, tan-colored tent hung with red lanterns.

    The Misenchanted Sword Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1985

  • So poor Kidd must be relegated to the dull ranks of simply respectable people, or semirespectable people at best.

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

  • A few minutes later he bade the policeman adieu, and, with a slip of paper in his pocket bearing a certain address in a semirespectable quarter, he walked briskly toward the nearest taxi stand.

    The Return of Tarzan 1913

  • A few minutes later he bade the policeman adieu, and, with a slip of paper in his pocket bearing a certain address in a semirespectable quarter, he walked briskly toward the nearest taxi stand.

    Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

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