respectability

How To Use respectability In A Sentence

• Do you think the Academy is really hip to how great Gosford Park is, or do they just like it's patina of British upper-crust respectability?
• Well, I suppose one of us had to maintain a veneer of respectability.
• There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
• They've got that credibility and that respectability back.
• Its main characters are played by a dream team of heavyweight Hollywood dames (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) whose involvement screams ‘respectability’.
• The nature of men is described as often having a natural depravity that is hidden inside respectability.
• If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma.
• Worcester had begun well and headed in to a 4-lead before two goals in the final seconds gave the scoreline some respectability from the point of view of the runners-up.
• I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
• With voluntaryism and self-improvement went self-respect, a code of honesty and a sense of respectability.