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.
Tutoree — much more euphonic, with a faint scent of French which gives it an air of respectability. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is Not a Word”:
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
This version of respectability is deeply informed by class. Jonathan Weiler: America's Elites Further Separate Themselves From Everyone Else
In the course of her conversation on the day of the workshop, she often referred to the terms dignity and respectability.
Beneath that sheen of hard-earned respectability, however, were unredeemed sins.
Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma.
For their generation, such tolerance was commonplace in maintaining the veneer of marital respectability. The Sun
But Australia has always had a seam of prim respectability running alongside its man o' the people stuff.
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote these terms to the level of respectability.
There are, or so I read, those who claim that a journalist writing a weblog adds a certain respectability and cachet to the medium.
Orthodoxy, symbolized by domestic markers of status and respectability derived from European customs, came a generation after initial colonial land claims. 73 Significantly, evidence of this cultural orthodoxy appears in archival sources after a period of contested frontier life. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
The company operates out of modern offices and expensive hotel suites to create an air of respectability.
In a snug corner might be seen a party of sober, quiet-looking gentlemen, taking their lobster and bucellas, whose first appearance would impress you with the belief of their respectability, but whom, upon inquiry, you would discover to be The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
I'd bought a cheap cardboardy case in Perth, plus a skimp of clean clothes, so I could portray respectability. THE TARTAN RINGERS
“Why, well,” said the youth, “if the abbot is a man of respectability becoming his vocation, and not one of those swaggering churchmen, who stretch out the sword, and bear themselves like rank soldiers in these troublous times.” Castle Dangerous
The respectability of conspiracy theories in that sense (leaving aside sheer insanities) is surprisingly relative.
Those same frozen fries gain similar respectability sopping up the cognac-tinged pan juices of rock 'n' roll beef, a staple of local Vietnamese menus that grew on me here.
The canker is suggestive of the character weaknesses, hurtful habits and secret sins that lurk below the surface of our respectability until exposed by extreme stress.
Now, at twenty-two, I was well aware that stewardess work balanced on the edge of social respectability.
This was an attempt to suggest respectability, an effect emphasised by a large, rusticated entrance arch.
That kind of respectability is not what my work is for, and never will be. Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
Her presence lent an air of respectability to the occasion.
There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
At a time when the English stage trafficked in romantic fripperies, he awakened complacent audiences to a host of social ills abetted by conventional morality, bourgeois respectability, and ossified institutions.
I'd say he's at the pinnacle of respectability now, or the mayor wouldn't be seen with him. SWIMMING TO CATALINA
He and Lathan grabbed their jackets, for respectability, and ran. LOADED QUESTIONS
Two and a half billion dollars tended to buy respectability, regardless of how such a fortune was amassed. CHAMELEON
Virtually announcing their indifference toward citizenship, tens of thousands of black and Mexican American youths adopted the zoot suit style, which many whites considered to be outrageous and lacking proper respectability. A Renegade History of the United States
Giuliani was the vanguard of the number-crunching, fine-print scanning evil wonks bent on scorched-earthing all that was, and his enforcers on this were the likely suspects — his police commissioners, Howie Safir and Berniie Kerik — respectability-aspiring, blue-collar hammers for “the man”. Archive 2008-01-01
The writing spoke of a desire for respectability and recognition: even for social revolution to alter a system which naturalised inequality.
Yes my friends, Plaid is outwardly a mainstream political party, but behind the smokescreen of respectability we are a fascist organization bent on conquering England (and indeed Europe; not sure about Essex though) with the goal of ridding the earth of Jews and Slavs in order to make room for the glorious master race: the dreaded crachach (Don Touhig was right). Archive 2009-09-01
Indeed, to disguise a subversive anarchist bomb as bourgeois respectability. Times, Sunday Times
In this way, perhaps, he seeks to cloak his book in an aura of scientific respectability.
In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbors. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
In doing so he demonstrates a clear preference of respectability above passion.
The social respectability of science attracted the patronage of wealthy and influential figures.
She said he concealed his darker side behind a veneer of respectability in order to hide his true character from adoring fans.
At length, as there was not the slightest charge against him, he obtained his liberation from M. Vidal; but when the Austrians arrived, one of the aids-de-camp, who heard of his sufferings and his respectability, sought him out, and furnished an escort to conduct his family to a place of safety. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
The country has again achieved international respectability after years of isolation.
wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability
I think she's shown that attempting to bring our nation back to respectability is not tops on her priority list & Obama has continuously shown that it's his top priority. Poll: Obama gaining support with key Clinton demographics
She said he concealed his darker side behind a veneer of respectability in order to hide his true character from adoring fans.
By opening the 9/11/11 show with the hard-won resolve of "Runaway," a song built around a promise not to run from the realities of relationship, and by allowing that promise to stay studded with more questions than answers, the band burnishes the louche hypotheses of its fine second album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, into a rocky respectability. S.X. Rosenstock: The National at the Hollywood Bowl
Attention to respectability and temperance offers a way to understand how gender and class shaped collective action and how workingmen and women incorporated their gender identities and interests into the institutions they built.
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
In doing so he demonstrates a clear preference of respectability above passion.
Mere culture, refinement, respectability, morality, is simply a painted coating of varnish on the outside.
This was Australia at their obdurate best, probing for every run and every sign of weakness, inching towards respectability and a dangerously competitive total on a pitch of uneven bounce.
They were well aware that, in order to retain social respectability, their sexual behaviour had to be beyond reproach.
The fact that it was invited to join a coalition marks the crowning achievement of its crusade to achieve political respectability.
The fact that it was invited to join a coalition marks the crowning achievement of its crusade to achieve political respectability.
For Owen, to whom speaking English has brought success and respectability, anglicising Irish place names represents the modernisation of Ireland as a nation.
But proof of his twisted extremism hits hopes of building a veneer of respectability. The Sun
All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence.
There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
She avoided the phrase palliative care because care, she wrote, “is a soft word” that would never win respectability in the medical world. The Emperor of All Maladies
Polyphony 4 makes it clear enough that a spirit of experimentation exists among those writers who have chosen to work within the uber-genre of science fiction/fantasy, much more so, if this anthology is at all representative, than among those who still aspire to the putative respectability of "literary fiction. Genre Fiction
There have been some forms of kaiserism dwelling among us for many years, so veneered with respectability and custom that some were deceived by them; but the lid is off now – the veneer has cracked – the veil is torn, and we see things as they are. In Times Like These
Despite their rhetoric, their smarm, their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition.
In course, sir, all gumptious folks are; they value themselves on their respectability, and looks down on their neighbours. My Novel — Complete
The Sixties completely wiped away the notion that virginity was essential to respectability and decency.
In response to the antihomosexual culture of the 1950s, members of the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Janus Society, the three major homophile organizations, adopted the “politics of respectability” of the civil rights movement. A Renegade History of the United States
Yet they've managed to keep a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
Historically when institutions and individuals back away from convictional biblical truth, it is driven primarily by one single factor -- and that is the respectability of other people. Good As You
Lynsey wasn't to know that, and Courtney's boast added to his aura of respectability.
The fact that it was invited to join a coalition marks the crowning achievement of its crusade to achieve political respectability.
It's a very worrying development and it's gaining social respectability.
Renaming Creationism as "Intelligent Design Theory" gives it a respectability it doesn't deserve, since it does not meet any of the criteria of a scientific theory - there is no POSITIVE evidence of a creator or designer (all they have is a kind of dumbstruck awe: "isn't the world complex?" and a lack of imagination "We can't imagine how this came to be", followed by an illogical step "it must be a designer"). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
In our family, integrity is there, respectability also.
Much of black heterosexuals 'antihomosexual sentiment exists as a means of countering the perception of black sexuality as perverse in order to survive and gain respectability and acceptance by the majority. Terrance Heath: Are Blacks More Homophobic?
The interest and respectability of this new start in life, made a little fresh opposition to the inroads of her besetting sin; so that now she did not consume as much whisky in three days as she did in one when she had her houff on the shore. Sir Gibbie
But proof of his twisted extremism hits hopes of building a veneer of respectability. The Sun
Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
Alternative medicine has only just started to gain respectability in our society.
This is the menace of socialism, and in affirming it and in tallying myself an adherent of it, I accept my own consequent unrespectability. Preface
Kicked out of east-coast prep schools and facing the glum prospect of a military academy, Igby goes slumming in lower Manhattan, but there's a porous border between moneyed respectability and penniless Bohemia.
As I've said before, literary respectability is in the process of taking care of itself. Archive 2007-04-01
It was certainly only an American who could have the tension of Mr. Wendover; his solemnity almost made her laugh, just as her eyes grew dull when people 'slanged' each other hilariously in her sister's house; but at the same time he gave her a feeling of high respectability. A London Life and Other Tales
Her father, Michael, a suave-looking businessman in his mid-forties with iron-on respectability, is sawing into a huge steak with a large knife in silence.
In Adelaide middle-class respectability is too strong for larrikinism, and imparts a far healthier social and moral tone than obtains in either Melbourne or Town Life in Australia
By the eighteenth century, masculine chastity was closely connected with one's respectability and membership among the middling sorts.
Meanwhile, music for the home centred on the piano, which was now the quintessential domestic instrument, badge of female gentility and social respectability.
But as it has been the custom from time immemorial for rewards to be offered for shedders of human blood, and many men whose respectability cannot be questioned have received rewards for services so rendered, I think that I shall pocket my share, and consider all three of you very weak and spleeny not to do the same. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability. Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
Anxieties regarding respectability were often concealed by seemingly trivial complaints over children, gardens or noise.
He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
The idea of respectability was more superficial and more widely applied than the idea of the gentleman, It included the suggestion of bodily cleanliness and neatness, particularly in its ap - plication to the lower classes. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The wacky has become the epitome of respectability and sanity. Times, Sunday Times
I crave intellectual respectability despite the fact that I am an inveterate gossip with a hankering for the naughty.
The old respectability of the establishment could no longer cover up the major moral lapses of the financial sector.
He was there barely a year, when his father, wearying of Richmond and respectability, and sighing for the shooting and boar-hunting of French forests, felt that he had sacrificed enough on account of an English education for his boys, and resolved to bring them up abroad under the care of a private tutor. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton
Wealth is a marker for social status, success, and respectability, just as poverty is stigmatising.
Her mother replied that policemen were greatly sought after as husbands for several reasons -- firstly, they were big men, and big men are always good to look upon; secondly, their social standing was very high and their respectability undoubted; thirdly, a policeman's pay was such as would bring comfort to any household which was not needlessly and criminally extravagant; and this was often supplemented in a variety of ways which rumor only hinted at: there was also the safe prospect of a pension and the possibility of a sergeantship, where the emoluments were very great: and fourthly, a policeman, being subjected for many years to a rigorous discipline, would likely make a nice and obedient husband. Mary, Mary
Yet they've managed to keep a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
Applying the label often serves as an imprimatur of management respectability.
There are few trades of the unendowed kind, for the workmen of such trades have to depend upon the generosity of their companions in the craft in the hour of need; and it is generally found more economical to pay a regular sum than to be called on at uncertain intervals for a donation; moreover, the respectability of the craft is better maintained. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
Without the respectability that lethal injection provides, capital punishment in the United States would probably cease.
Yet they've managed to keep a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
For their generation, such tolerance was commonplace in maintaining the veneer of marital respectability. The Sun
The Sixties completely wiped away the notion that virginity was essential to respectability and decency.
These placed an emphasis on the role of charity in encouraging moral regeneration and on the virtues of self-reliance and respectability.
His super-clean image gave a veneer of respectability to the new professional set-up.
It is a story of the seamy underside of respectability and conformity, and of the discovery of unlooked-for courage. Write to your MEP - now, today!
If she divorced Tony, she would lose the respectability she had as Mrs Tony Tatterton.
I want Dreamland deployed as part of the ASEAN exercises - give it a cloak of respectability. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
Rigid, narrow-minded and dull, she walked all her days veiled in the dreariest garb of propriety and respectability. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Her presence lent an air of respectability to the occasion.
Youthful irresponsibility quickly evolved into recklessness, vanity, intolerance of rivals, and drunken debauch, so, by 1827, loss of respectability was accompanied by visible physical disintegration.
Writers from James to Hemingway and beyond foreswore the managing of "atmospherical medium" in order to emphasize fidelity to the "probable" (partly, it must also be said, to bring fiction a perceived respectability that the Romantic dabbling in what Hawthorne also called the "marvellous" did not), and perhaps some of their influence does linger on. Realism in Fiction
They hide behind some facade of respectability but I rest in absolute confidence that their time is next!
He argues that professionalization emerged as an ideology used by women and men social workers to overcome their marginal status and gain respectability in a new and increasingly feminized job market in the 20th century.
He has featured in the spine of any Aberdeen sides reaching out towards respectability in the past seven years.
The newspaper revealed the sordid truth behind his mask of respectability.
In recent years the craft has attained a vague sense of semi-respectability, and that damnable respectability brought with it new rules against drinking.
The facade is so drenched in respectability it's practically perfect. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
His father frowned on it as a fancy lacking respectability, but eventually sent his son off to San Diego, Calif., where famed craftsman Bozo Podunavac ran a school of lutherie. The Real Guitar Hero of Rock 'n' Roll
The acquisition of land not only gave social respectability but also wealth.
The veneer of middle-class respectability is laid bare for the cheating, backstabbing and adulterous world it really is in Leslie Darbon's play.
The naive, romantical notions that had triggered her avalanche fall from a life of respectability? Earl of Durkness
The respectability of youth lies in their courage and great expectations.
The Demoiselle, keeping her carriage, is for Liberty indeed, as she has full well shewn; but then for Liberty with Respectability: whereupon these serpent-haired Extreme She-Patriots now do fasten on her, tatter her, shamefully fustigate her, in their shameful way; almost fling her into the Garden-ponds, had not help intervened. The French Revolution
But thanks to the reputation for rationality, they have been able to develop a sedan and a coupe that begin to stretch the boundaries of midsize car respectability.
He had brought nobility and respectability to the British stage.
Judging from the tone of their utterances, the women and men who argued for respectability and sobriety sincerely believed what they said.
Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline.
He has been dubbed Canada's David Lynch, which is a lazy way of saying he likes to footle around beneath the facade of respectability.
No longer is the hobby a sign of social maladjustment: it's a badge of respectability and curiosity. Times, Sunday Times
He longed to throw off the mask of respectability.
The theory has now gained scientific respectability.
They decided to moralize the election and in so doing gave the Christian right a respectability, visibility, and political clout that it had not previously enjoyed.
Mayo finished with a flourish once more, hitting three points in the final five minutes, but it merely gave some respectability to the final scoreline in what was another heavy defeat.
He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
They spend their fortune trying to gain social respectability.
In retirement in Tiverton, Cowley became more and more concerned about her own reputation for respectability, and she worked hard to make sure that no breath of scandal hung over her life.
What they seemed to entirely be missing in their analysis is the notion of respectability.
By the standard of past royal marriages he is a model of bourgeois respectability. Times, Sunday Times
Likewise one of the things I hate about socialism and statism is that it erodes incentives to 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
The social respectability of science attracted the patronage of wealthy and influential figures.
One night, Ianira had fled the gyneceum and its imprisoning "respectability," driven by grief and terror into the night-dark streets of Athens. Wagers of Sin
The Europe case is sound but the baggage that comes with it is unattractive and in any case a world of electoral dreams The other problem is that this attitudinising will leave the Conservative party entirely in the hands of Liberals with any move towards UKIP policies, which are widely supported, appearing actually treacherous This is very bad indeed and entirely the fault of UKIP who have failed to maintain respectability and civility. Priestly Castes and Political Exclusion
Their position in the zodiac of respectability is pretty much locked in, barring a huge meltdown. Matthew Yglesias » Different Strokes
All of this solemnity had the effect of devitalizing Potter's work, prematurely shrouding it with all the cobwebs of respectability and reverence.
But the gravitational pull of bourgeois respectability remained strong.
Its fob chain, stretched across the workingman's waistcoat, became a new symbol of respectability.
A staid, quiet, moral and intelligent community have supplied the place of many of the early settlers "who left their country for their country's good;" and churches, school-houses and Lodges now are prominent where the "doggery" made wild work with "the peace and dignity of the State," and the respectability and decency of particular individuals. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
Health, ease, plenty, elegance, friendship, respectability; old age welcome, death unstung become a familiar friend, the messenger of my Father to fetch me home to those mansions which my Redeemer has taken possession of in my name. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.
The word "ragamuffin," which I have used above, does not accurately express the man, because there is a sort of shadow or delusion of respectability about him, and a sobriety too, and a kind of decency in his groggy and red-nosed destitution. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
Two and a half billion dollars tended to buy respectability, regardless of how such a fortune was amassed. CHAMELEON
Alternative medicine has only just started to gain respectability in our society.
Since drinking coffee socially was something that gentility and the aristocracy did, the middle classes could prove their own respectability and gentility by doing the same.
A tall stout gentleman with impressive respectability oozing out of him at every pore -- with a swelling outline of black-waistcoated stomach, with a lofty forehead, with a smooth double chin resting pulpily on a white cravat. A Rogue's Life
It was a curious mixture of staid respectability with overtones of holiday fun.
But the offer is vetoed by Finn, who alone sees the ugly fascist behind The Man's smooth mask of respectability.
Mr. Brandeis 'communication, his feeling was of conviction that propriety had been re-established, or that the problem had been solved, as he expresses it: knowing Mr. Brandeis well, he had called upon that upholder of respectability, to see the substance that had been identified as nostoc. The Book of the Damned
She managed to hide her corrupt dealings under a veneer of respectability.
They desperately crave scientific respectability, but it is their own theory that prevents them from attaining it.
Then Ida put aside her life of duty and quiet respectability in the little upstate town of New Paltz and hopped a train.
As Professor Moeen Cheema notes, these young, part-time and often poor lawyer-foot soldiers that made up the bulk of Pakistan's legal establishment, "barely eke out a decent living from legal practice ... and enrollment in the bar is a part-time venture for them that provides a status of respectability rather than living wages. Ehsan Zaffar: Amid a Turbulent Year, a Rare Sign of Hope in Pakistan
Yet the notion of "respectability" is on the rise. Graffiti: the wry humor of Mexico City street stencil art
These local magistrates cum merchants therefore had a vested interest in forestalling the equation between plebeian female respectability and the private sphere. Gutenber-e Help Page
No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book
Efforts have been made to obtain in English some term equivalent to Philister or epicier; Mr. Carlyle has made several such efforts: “Respectability with its thousand gigs,” he says; well, the occupant of every one of these gigs is, Mr. Carlyle means, a Philistine. Matthew Arnold
This is how it achieves respectability, legitimacy and, very often, public funding.
Just as honor is a prerequisite for respectability, so is unblemished character a barometer of integrity.
Has the notion of solidarity escaped him in his flight for respectability?
In advocating nonviolence, King asked African Americans to “present our very bodies” as living sacrifices to attain citizenship and respectability, and offered himself as a model of self-abnegation. A Renegade History of the United States
It describes the way the lower castes tend to imitate the customs and rituals of the upper layers in order to gain social respectability.
If she divorced Tony, she would lose the respectability she had as Mrs Tony Tatterton.
They stand before us as inert models of a species of social respectability that is as unbudgeable and dependable as the wood from which they seem to have been fashioned.
Teaching offered both social respectability and an opportunity to earn a living.
His take on the respectability of SETI in the scientific community is unduly pessimistic.
There are many alternatives to equities that can prove to be equally dubious while being wrapped in a cloak of respectability. Times, Sunday Times
A long cardigan over a flattering flared trouser will look casual, but with an air of respectability. The Sun
Gentility and respectability are the last things people of any class wish to symbolise now.
Because it was limited to the elite, pornography had a kind of back-door respectability.
For a long time, the capital of Victoria seemed to be the seat of provincial respectability.
At the age of 93, the late Dominic was the oldest man in the parish, he was a diligent farmer, an astute stockman and his long life was a model of gentleness and quiet respectability.
By the 1880s, minstrelsy had shed some of its lowbrow reputation and attained a degree of mainstream respectability. A Renegade History of the United States
The Sixties completely wiped away the notion that virginity was essential to respectability and decency.
Then the vocals kick in, stripping the veneer of respectability and reminding anyone who they are listening to.
The theory has now gained scientific respectability.
Television has played no small part in the creation of an aura of respectability around supernatural mumbo jumbo, whether it be presented as new age or old school.
Locals took umbrage at such castigation, and echoing the responses to the Wylde affair, many sought to re-affirm the respectability of the colony in the face of accusations that could be economically and politically damaging.
His super-clean image gave a veneer of respectability to the new professional set-up.
They appeal too much to the respectability of historiographical standards.
And just to add the patina of respectability, we put in a blackcurrant bush.
He is a grave and reverend signior, with rosary in hand and Koran on lip, is generally a pilgrim, talks at dreary length about Holy Places, writes a pretty hand, has read and can recite much poetry, is master of his religion, demeans himself with respectability, is perfect in all points of ceremony and politeness, and feels equally at home whether sultan or slave sit upon his counter. First footsteps in East Africa
No individuals have ever been prosecuted, so these satellites have what's called the pallor of respectability.

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