Definition of Respectability
Respectability
The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
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Respectability Quotations
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
David Herbert Lawrence
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones
I know how easy it is for some minds to glide along with the current of popular opinion, where influence, respectability, and all those motives which tend to seduce the human heart are brought to bear.
Benjamin F. Wade
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Shelley Winters
The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike
God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
Mandy Rice-Davies
Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
Sam Keen
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Respectability Translations
respectability in German is Achtbarkeit {f}
respectability in Spanish is respetabilidad
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