Definition of Respectable

Respectable

Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience.

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Respectable Quotations

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.
Eric Hoffer

Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
Ann Coulter

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
Samuel Butler

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.
Mercy Otis Warren

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
Anthony Trollope

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins

Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.
Jhonen Vasquez

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
Joseph de Maistre

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
Robert Fortune

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.
Alexis Arguello

One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
Diane Wakoski

I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Seth Green

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.
Catherine Bell

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.
Humphrey Carpenter

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.
Joely Richardson

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
Robert Bork

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
Robert Grosseteste

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Respectable Translations

respectable in Dutch is achtenswaardig, achtbaar
respectable in German is ehrbar, ansehnlich

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