Crossword clues for respectability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Respectability \Re*spect`a*bil"i*ty\ (r?*sp?kt`?*b?l"?*t?), n. The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1785, from respectable + -ity.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being respectable.
WordNet
n. honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation [syn: reputability] [ant: unrespectability, unrespectability]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "respectability".
Yet, in many of the plans and designs got up for his accommodation, in the books and publications of the day, all due convenience, to say nothing of the respectability or the elegance of domestic life, is as entirely disregarded as if such qualities had no connection with the farmer or his occupation.
Keith Brassard, Lord Of the Dope Trade, and replaced it with the illusion of complete respectability.
He never misses a chance in his practice, which is a mark of respectability.
When the pantry had been restored to respectability it was lunchtime and they decided to bring Sister Ursula downstairs.
Or, she might have a decrepit old Mum back home on Terra, and this is the only way she can earn enough sols fast enough to let the old lady live out her last years in style and respectability.
I want no family of any respectability to sleep unapprised by the time we go to the binders.
He added to the respectability of science fiction among those who found us unrespectable, and made it easier for the rest of us to get on the best-seller list occasionally.
She turned her head over her shoulder and gave that man planted heavily in front of the fireplace a glance, half arch, half cruel, out of her large eyes - a glance of which the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days would have been incapable, because of her respectability and her ignorance.
Vishnu and Brahma cults, Saivism was starting to grow in respectability as well as popularity.
He was connected with a family of great respectability at Royston, in Cambridgeshire, and inherited from them a moderate-sized landed estate.
Ever since then Cicero spoke up for him, and was doing so at the moment so strenuously that it could safely be deduced that he and Hybrida were planning to run as a team for the consulship, Cicero lending their campaign respectability and Hybrida putting up the money.
It should come as no surprise that the period ends with another earnest Victorian making wonderful, irreverent fun of respectability and earnestness, putting Victorianism in its final place, as he so often did, with epigrammatic and telling wit.
The irreproachable conduct obtained for her a reputation of respectability which, at her age, would have been held as ridiculous and even insulting by any other woman belonging to the same profession, and many ladies of the highest rank honoured her with her friendship more even than with their patronage.
Lord Albemarle at the age of thirteen, and her conduct was always of the highest respectability.
But these people were as denationalised as the dishes set before them with every circumstance of unstamped respectability.