How To Use Respectable In A Sentence

His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent. Did you know that Jews control the Washington Post? [Bumped.] - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
All very respectable and middle-class. Times, Sunday Times
On occasion, when a school of blackfish disported by, each one of them a whale of respectable size, Nishikanta would be beside himself in the ecstasy of inflicting pain. CHAPTER XII
But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.

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There are many well-paid and highly respectable careers which do not require a university education, and this is rarely talked about. Times, Sunday Times
I fancy that he supposed me ignorant of the matter, or thought that if I had heard of it, I should never connect the respectable Dr. Black of Harlesden with a poor garreteer in the backwoods of London. The House of Souls
The further that respectable society shuns the children, the more they follow the only route open to them and fulfil all negative expectations.
Poor Leigh defence let the home team in for several soft tries which gave the home team a respectable result.
But she had nothing to say throwing any light on the investigation, save that she admitted reluctantly that "Anny" would have been such a nice, respectable young woman if it hadn't been for the drink. The Lodger
Anonymous - but in that case, how come so many men end up with there's no nice way to say this lardy boring ultra-respectable old mingers, who they've deliberately chosen as their life partners over foxier alternatives? Why Modern Women Can't Win With Modern Men
He took a more than respectable 3 for 89 with his swinging fasties and made 41 with the bat.
The deterrents could well prove useful in deterring them from kerb-crawling and helping to make Goitside respectable again.
Does anyone find it odd that the former ‘jerk’ is now a respectable choice to host Hollywood's biggest bash?
The criminal is the guy who comes up short, who gets caught, who fails to adopt a respectable cover.
And at two places sharp-tongued women would not allow him to enter, frankly stating that icemen were too dirty creatures to allow inside the door of a respectable house; the women received their ten-cent cubes in pans and slammed the door in his face. The Landloper
In short, though not yet fully attained, political democracy had become respectable, and Socialism had become arguable.
Their silence, to look at its positive aspect, possibly reflects a refusal to be associated with the task of making geoengineering look respectable.
They all wanted to appear to be respectable members of society, while all the time undermining that with their despicable acts. The Sun
Results for last year were respectable enough. Times, Sunday Times
I just wanted to get to the bottom, to the underlying mechanics, of why some respectable pieces went wholly unliked while others generated a fuss. The Meaning of 'Like'
In my segment of over-privileged middle-class London, countless respectable parents are sheltering a great lummox of a son whose only apparent plan is never to amount to anything.
This is a respectable middle-class family who always worked hard and enjoyed a comfortable life. Times, Sunday Times
In fact the numbers voting for it were probably nearer two millions - a respectable enough turnout at a time of civil war, and an indication that the propitiatory gesture of national consultation had achieved some success.
Do not cover up aspects of your lifestyle, such as heavy drinking, which you think may make you look less respectable.
Victorians sought to create respectable personal habits in societies where the vast majority of inhabitants can be described only as crude.
They seem like a very respectable family. Times, Sunday Times
Taking the argument to a highly respectable theologian, she won her point (‘'tis I that must be confuted,’ he conceded graciously).
Chickens scratched in the company of a stately, gruff-voiced, very respectable pig, rooting under a walnut tree.
No trees, no bluffs, no cabins, no telegraph poles, nothin '," moaned Red Bill; "nothin 'respectable enough nor big enough to swing the toes of a five-foot man clear o' the ground. JAN, THE UNREPENTANT
He was a rebel in his teens but he's a respectable citizen these days.
Hullo, young cockbird," said the owner of the face -- a middle-aged, respectable, nautical-looking sort of man -- speaking in a cheery voice, which went to my heart; "what's the row with you, my hearty? On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
We all, blushed, like respectable noblewomen should, but we waved back.
Thus, even though nomads have to get much of their food by slaughtering animals from their herds, their way of life is still religiously respectable.
By 1891 the desertion rate had fallen to a more respectable 6.2 percent.
So, apart from pushing for a more respectable position in the table, it is to the cup competitions that he is looking for salvation.
They don't teach us this at law school as an example of good lawyering, but maybe we're just taught to be too respectable.
This was a respectable newspaper and not another of those despicable rags printed in other towns.
A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend.
The courage to believe is easy, with lots of respectable company, but I admire more the courage to doubt.
To make it sound a respectable policy they call it reflation. Responsible and Prudent Economic Policies
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
Sex - particularly sexual disease linked to prostitution - was an acutely embarrassing subject to any respectable Victorian woman.
At normal, respectable speeds it drives without the unwieldy nature that afflicts many supercars.
Among the branches the squirrels frolicked, whisking their plume-like tails and keeping at a respectable distance from every other animal that was not of their own family. The Black Phantom
The defense has been respectable and the pitching decent.
Indeed, on a smaller scale, a portfolio of small caps could turn in a very respectable performance.
The character of noir is subtly uncompromising, at the right time mortally confronting not the two-bit gunsel but Mr. Big, the respectable-appearing ring leader behind it all.
Every respectable galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center -- all except the one galaxy that has now been caught in the act of ejecting its insatiable mass-muncher.
But reports suggest that they were in perfectly respectable health. Times, Sunday Times
She's living down at Winchester now, close to the cathedral, one of the most respectable ladies there - chaperones girls at the county ball, if you please.
Similarly, a respectable suburban life may well be suppressed by an individual who wants to retain credibility amongst the gang.
And its interesting because I went on to the Observer, which is a broadsheet newspaper, and very respectable, and for a very short time in the late 70s I was Woman's Editor.
As a result, Irish beef exports to the UK increased by a very respectable 11 per cent.
There is a reasonably respectable visible elite and a murky and far from respectable hidden group within the leadership core. The Government and Politics of France
Meer Baber Beg has placed his fortress in a very respectable state of defence, quite adequate to repel the desultory inroads of his predatory neighbours; but commanded by and exposed to enfilade from the hills about it, on one of these hills he has built a tower as a kind of outwork, but it is very weak and of insignificant size. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
Ironically, some eugenics leaders were uneasy about their alliance because they felt it could compromise their then-respectable public image.
People - apparently respectable, upstanding people - actually justifying these unspeakable crimes.
I like her immensely, even though I harbor a respectable amount of fear every time I have to converse with her.
Babbitt is the upholder of everything that is conservative, conventional and respectable.
The respectable Christian Science Monitor produced an important article, ‘Why do they hate us?’
Yet today the land yields respectable if not bumper crops of wheat, pulses and vegetables, and some migrants have returned.
Old alligators -- one couldn't call you men, and it's enough to make decent men squirm that you should be at large and be called by the same name -- can act like you and yet be considered respectable, but this is to show you what _decent_ women think of your likes, and their spirits are with us in armies to-night in what we are doing. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
Agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, again flourished under the protection of the laws; and the curioe, or civil corporations, were again filled with useful and respectable members: the youth were no longer apprehensive of marriage; and married persons were no longer apprehensive of posterity: the public and private festivals were celebrated with customary pomp; and the frequent and secure intercourse of the provinces displayed the image of national prosperity. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Once Kipling got his Nobel, he was kicked upstairs to the more respectable niche of assistant editor, as per the Pioneer apocrypha.
Not once but several times has the libertine Neptune scandalously seduced punts and dinghies from the respectable precincts of Brammo Bay, and having philandered with them for a while, cynically abandoned them with a bump on the mainland beach, and only once has he sent a punt in return — a poor, soiled, tar-besmirched, disorderly waif that was reported to the police and reluctantly claimed. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
In an ingenious and thought-provoking paper some time ago, Jerrold Levinson put forward a novel and imaginative thesis purporting to explain why tropism never quite got off the ground, despite its respectable bimillennial launch history (1980). Tropes
Fillings were made by using mats, cylinders, tapes, and ropes, with hand-pressure, on the plan for manipulating non-cohesive gold foil, but it was difficult to insert a respectable approximal filling. Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth
Like some dorky computer geek who got promoted after his hair grayed & he bought a respectable pair of untaped glasses. Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
He bore his highly respectable name upon the frontal band of his "berretta" alias "corôa," an open-worked affair, very like the old-fashioned jelly-bag night cap. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
To some, the idea of sexagenarian roommates having fun (and even getting laid) in their old age was too frightening to watch-but that was then, and this is now, where MILFs and even GILFs have their own video series, so how could a respectable parody producer not want to give these old broads their belated XXX bones? AVN Industry News
In that company, the septet that the label assembled to commemorate its 70th anniversary feels less all-star than all-respectable. Undefined
Finally, after much jockeying, the younger man visits Ames and tells him his story of wandering and dissipation, and of an affair in St. Louis with a black woman from a respectable preacher's family in Tennessee.
To the Respectable Citizen, the Moral Matron, and the Young Person, with a love of larkiness and lilt, but a distrust of politics, pugilism, and deep potations, the following eclectic adaptation of this prodigiously popular ballad may perhaps be not altogether unwelcome. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891
Hindoos, are given in marriage to one bramhun {u-caron}, in order to make these families something more respectable, and that the parents may be able to say, we are allied by marriage to the kooleens ... Life of William Carey
As a child swot, though, I felt a responsibility to my family to enter a "respectable" profession I dutifully studied law but found journalism's raffish camaraderie more accommodating. Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
_souteneur_, although from the respectable point of view he has put himself into a low-down moral position, is, after all, not so very unlike those parasitic wives who, on a higher social level, live lazily on their husbands 'professional earnings, and sometimes give much less than the _souteneur_ in return. Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene
The nails of a European, like those of a Rakshasa, distil a deadly poison, and hence he is afraid to eat with his fingers, as all respectable people do, and prefers to use a knife and fork.
My own experience as an ‘intellectual’ thus far has been halting, backtracking, often unfinished, particularly unremunerative, and certainly not respectable.
toggery," the "Hornet's" lads turned to, and soon collected clothing enough to fit out each prisoner with a respectable kit. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
In the time of Christ, a Roman could buy a respectable suit of clothes for about an ounce of gold coin.
Extra daughters were sent off to live in respectable refinement at convents, so that the family would not have to dower them as lavishly and divide the family patrimony.
His new apparel somewhat shocked M. and Madame de Meroul who even at home on their estate always remained serious and respectable, as the particle "de" before their name exacted a certain amount of ceremonial even with their intimate friends. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
Epicycles worked on paper, sort of, but they did a much better job at keeping astronomers respectable and their models intact than at describing the actual movements of heavenly bodies; they have come to be known as the epitome of bad science. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
Even the chips are the real deal; I inevitably end up eating more than I mean to, usually with a side of respectable chile con queso or guacamole.
It is not respectable to spit on the sidewalk.
The reason our parents married us was because I am a respectable serviceman!
Put a tie on - it'll make you look more respectable.
Though these returns are respectable they are far from guaranteed. Times, Sunday Times
On reaching the churchyard and turning the corner towards the spot as usual, she was surprised to perceive another woman, also apparently a respectable widow, and with a tiny boy by her side, bending over Clark's turf, and spudding up with the point of her umbrella some ivy-roots that A Changed Man; and other tales
The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions.
Henry the fourth of France had but one coach between himself and his queen; whereas no respectable person can now dispense at the least with a travelling chariot, a barouche, a cab, and a dennet. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 381, July 18, 1829
Removing his rather shabby cloak to reveal a more respectable outfit underneath, Maddock spied a nearby servant carrying a tray of food.
The new vicarage had been built in a respectable but little-frequented corner of the town - quiet, unvisited by tourists. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
She bought a long lease on the apartment in quiet and respectable Hahnwald, a leafy and staid suburb of Cologne.
In any capitalist society, income from ownership and the wages of workers are considered to be the only socially respectable sources of income. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
Tom, in his sportive mood, had caused serious inconvenience to a most respectable policeman.
His smoking tea went hissing over the " hot coppers " of that respectable veteran.
The elder must be respectable - not a sourpuss or a stuffed shirt - but a man who has gained respect.
Whenever Sri Krishna desires to manifest His incarnation on earth, first He creates the incarnations of His respectable predecessors.
He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
He was a born-again Christian and he was the choirmaster in his church and that is considered to be very, very important in Kenya: if you're a choirmaster you're a respectable person in the community.
For while they may appear every inch the middle-class professional, there is a growing chance a surprising secret lurks beneath the respectable clothing.
He was, in short, one of those respectable links that connect the coxcombs of the present day with those of the last age, and could compare, in his own experience, the follies of both. Saint Ronan's Well
Reports of respectable drops in bear metabolic rates during hibernation cheer Eric Hellgren of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, who admits to "a biased viewpoint as a bear biologist.
Ironically, some eugenics leaders were uneasy about their alliance because they felt it could compromise their then-respectable public image.
This began to change in the 1970s as stagflation made many conservative economic ideas, such as monetarism, more academically respectable. The End Of The Think Tank
He was just being mindful of his stature as an respectable and esteemed brilliant scientifically oriented mind.
She is the most respectable servant I have met with in Italy; and, were you not provided, I would recommend her to you, — she is a good sempstress, and an excellent nurse. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
Both its universities use the catchline in their efforts to attract the sons and daughters of respectable families. Times, Sunday Times
He let out a torrent of abuse, none of it printable in a respectable daily newspaper.
The perfectly respectable schools and colleges attended by their fathers simply would not do. THE GUARDSMEN
The company has in fact been a perfectly respectable performer. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, he was an active participant on that evening but, while he was only too happy to dish out the vodka, he remained teetotal and disappeared to bed at a respectable hour so he was fit and able for practice the following morning.
The said gentleman is a citizen of respectable appearance wearing a large full-bottom'd peruke, which though it has never been comb'd is as smooth as on the first day it was form'd. Letter 222
The consequences of the strength of the political spirit are not all direct, nor does its strength by any means spring solely from its indulgence to the less respectable elements of character, such as languor, extreme pliableness, superficiality. On Compromise
Chandler worried that the scandal would destroy his chances for a respectable career.
One whole delicious hour this morning, did my Agnes rest on my shoulder, while I held it for her perusal; and I kissed, unreproved, the sweet stillicide off her glowing cheeks, at every sentence of tenderness, from her respectable friend. Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
Field, and respected and respectable, as respectable as respec-table can respectably be, though their orable amission were the herrors I could have expected, all, let them all come, they are my villeins, with chartularies I have talledged them. Finnegans Wake
Without him she seemed destined for the same kind of respectable career as fellow Australian Judy Davis.
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
Also, they will do things for people in short-skirted velveteen coats with bone buttons, or in sleeved waistcoats and fur caps, which they cannot be persuaded by the respectable orders of society to undertake. The Bed-Book of Happiness
Sheldon met her first bawd when a Mrs Horsham, a very respectable-looking woman, engaged her in polite conversation on a bench in St James's Park.
That is an old established and plainly respectable principle.
_ This appears a startling statement and a sweeping; but, as a matter of fact, the Eastern girl is not left, like her Western sister, to flirt and frivol into middle age in single "cussedness," but almost invariably becomes a respectable married lady at ten or twelve, and drapes her lovely, but not over clean, head in the mantle of old sacking, which it is _de rigueur_ for matrons to adopt. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
He came from a respectable working-class background - he felt shamed by her accusation. Times, Sunday Times
These selfsame Bengals pasted a very respectable Denver team.
With blazing and scornful eyes she fairly withered him by demanding whatever he meant by speaking to respectable people that way.
That allows the vast increase in % of income to outweight the paltry giving for the previous five years (before he started running for president) to arrive at a more than respectable 3.85%. Clintons Release 2000-2006 Returns: Earned $110 Million, Paid $33 Million In Taxes
They are true believers - dogmatists - who view opposition to their views and values as malice, ignorance, or stupidity rather than as a reflection of honest and respectable disagreement.
His savings were just enough to pay for a respectable funeral.
They have generally marginalised less respectable behaviour, finding it difficult to acknowledge or convenient to overlook.
It helps to mar what is otherwise a perfectly respectable account of the old soak's rise to power.
Results for last year were respectable enough. Times, Sunday Times
She died in America in 1773, a respectable matron aged thirty-eight.
Despite the poor show by Offaly hurlers last Sunday in Croke Park, the lure of two games is expected to draw a respectable amount of tricoloured Gaels south.
It helps to mar what is otherwise a perfectly respectable account of the old soak's rise to power.
They began writing in iambic pentameter, or in some other " respectable " verse form.
Though they may get carried away with internet-facilitated braggadocio, they also do the work that ‘respectable’ public figures don't have to.
The cassoulet is respectable, properly put together and cooked slowly.
Crappies are our largest "panfish" and they can get to a respectable size. Custom Search
I was of a more respectable station in the world then than I am now, being a land smuggler in a large way of business; and I used to season my furmity with rum for them who asked for't. The Mayor of Casterbridge
I was [working] at a photographer's outside Wellington and used to come to town every evening and lived in Wellington with a very respectable family who took boarders.
In the eyes of critics, the respectable renegade from the ministry was a dangerous disturber of social order.
It is a deeply incisive explanation of how we all begin, how we plod on, and how we approach the end -- we are always looking for a theory or an idea to bring cohesion to the chaos that is life, whether it be the career we choose (or reject) or the spouse we adore (or don't) or the label we flaunt ("free-spirit," "dependable," "respectable"). Nina Sankovitch: The Story of Life: How It All Began by Penelope Lively
He then goes on to embellish the amorous moments with flowery, artsy-fartsy language to make it all sound oh-so-respectable and erotic.
It is a respectable challenge for climbers on their first independent Alpine forays and a good day out for the more experienced. Times, Sunday Times
Even with her respectable outfit and beautiful girl on her arm, it felt awkward.
In 2000 Bill trimmed his shag to a respectable ‘suits' length and adopted a camera-perfect part.
This is unfair to a respectable woman. Times, Sunday Times
The first programme looked at nudity - in a fairly respectable BBC fashion, naturally.
You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
In others, the push for self-government had more respectable democratic credentials.
Le respect, l'enthousiasme, dont mon âme est remplie, en contemplant l'ensemble des vertues morales et politiques qui constituent l'Angleterre; l'admiration d'un tel spectacle, le repos céleste qu'il me fasait goûter; ces sentiments si doux et si nécessaires après la tourmente de trois ans de revolution, s'unissent dans mon souvenir au delicieuse séjour, aux respectables amis, prés desquels je les ai éprouvés. Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
People are always shocked when it's respectable middle-class people. The Sun
Respectable ad agencies, of course, will insist that their own ethical standards are unimpeachable.
There's a hangover sensibility that tattoos are "disrespectable," says Atkinson, 39, who has two full sleeves and a chest tattoo. Thestar.com - Home Page
But the media treat these routine untruths as respectable statements that ought to be analysed and debated.
When a child of a respectable family disappeared without a trace in 1750, riots, spurred by rumors that the children's blood was being drained to cure leprous princes, broke out in several of the city's districts.
Here's a quote from Yves Duhoux on pages 223 of L'étéocrétois (1982) talking about Gordon's views and his poor grasp of linguistic methodology despite university education: "L'hypothèse sémitique ne nous paraît, dès lors, pas moins (ni plus) respectable que toute autre - mais elle doit, comme les autres, passer au crible de la critique (ceci deviendrait, sous la plume de GORDON 1975, p.158: 'blind denial is no more scientific than blind acceptance'). Archive 2008-04-01
A respectable elderly woman stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the stage. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Her experiences as wife to the degenerate Glyde are held back from the respectable reader, lest they offend like undraped piano legs in the drawing-room.
I believe I was having her stir a respectable pottage ," says Margarethe. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
When she was four she sat down at the family piano and plunked out a shockingly respectable rendition of ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.’
What kind of image does the sport want: that of a game so correct and respectable that nobody is allowed to speak a controversial word?
And what makes it all the more bizarre is that this dark indictment of a racist and neurotic world was written by a respectable lady who was probably a pillar of that very society.
Many of their strictures are sheer nannying about the obvious, which hardly merits its respectable disguise in the shreds of theory.
What's wrong with making moral choices when we shop, buying only those goods raised in a respectable, sustainable way?
Despite the inclusion of a number of respectable lifters in their squad, they were unable to match not only the technical expertise of the Oxford lifters, but also their cohesion and team spirit.
Wilson Cruz is respectable as the sexually confused, morally stable, and guilt ridden member of the trio.
Isolationism has a long and respectable pedigree in American history.
The French have adopted the term epicier (grocer) to designate the sort of being whom the Germans designate by the term Philistine; but the French term ” besides that it casts a slur upon a respectable class, composed of living and susceptible members, while the original Philistines are dead and buried long ago ” is really, I think, in itself much less apt and expressive than the German term. Matthew Arnold
In each port he had a wife, one home-loving and respectable and one more passionate and out-going.
The Playfair business was a respectable business to buy; the Plummer Place, though it stood in an unfashionable outskirt, was a respectable place to settle in; and the minister, in casting his lot in Elgin, envisaged John Murchison as part of it, thought of him confidently as a "dependance," saw him among the future elders and office-bearers of the congregation, a man who would be punctual with his pew-rent, sage in his judgements, and whose views upon church attendance would be extended to his family. The Imperialist
The respectable and greatly - trusted Sam was letting off a series of wild howls which would have done credit to a penny-gaff Zulu, and was evidently very much out of temper about something. Many Cargoes
For a little reputation at a dinner table, for a coaxing nobe from some titled demirep affecting the De Stael, they forget not only to be glorious but even to be respectable. Godolphin, Volume 2.
Similarly, a respectable suburban life may well be suppressed by an individual who wants to retain credibility amongst the gang.
As a pretty girl from a respectable family, she toys with her beaux - little boys who must play the love game by her rules.
You refuse to change to become like the rest of respectable society.
In the palmy days of work, before the firm smashed, they had aspired to what might properly be called diggings; and, moreover, had "digged" in respectable surroundings. The Sorcery Club
Despite a promise to kick the nicotine habit, he has only managed to cut down from three packs a day to an almost respectable one.
The farmer had paused over Fred's respectable though broken-winded steed long enough to show that he thought it worth consideration, and it seemed probable that he would take it, with five-and-twenty pounds in addition, as the equivalent of Diamond.
Her CD sales were respectable, but never amounted to the blockbuster numbers her label and industry types projected.
The fish section listed a respectable range of sea creatures including turbot, scad, gobies, barbun, zargan, belted bomito, and breaded shark for between three and 11 leva.
He is legendary for supplementing his grant by writing sexual fantasies for the top-shelf magazine Forum but he eventually got a respectable job as a trainee with the Mirror Group.
It was the work of Florence Nightingale and her companions in the Crimea that did more than anything else to establish female nursing as a respectable career.
Hoping to steer rock fans toward “better” music, officers of the Socialist Unity Party heavily promoted Alo Koll, a Leipzig bandleader who played thoroughly safe music, and commissioned three dance teachers to invent a refined, respectable, civilized, “socialist” dance step, which became known as the “Lipsi.” A Renegade History of the United States
He was also friendly with many Catholic churchmen anxious to make belief in God intellectually respectable.
Reading itself, which "loomed for a Shillington child as an immense, remote, menacing, and glamorous metropolis," is a remarkably recognizable Brewer, with its depiction over the Rabbit series offering a nearly perfect rendering of the actual city's respectable past, attempts at renewal and hardscrabble present. Keystone to Updike's Imagination
Include the share price rise and the total return is 8 per cent last year, which is respectable enough. Times, Sunday Times
Their stridency resulted in the general ‘outing’ of the worst kind of communal prejudices from even the respectable middle class.
Criticism as "grunt work" -- laboring on behalf of works of literature because they deserve intelligent analysis -- seems to me a perfectly respectable undertaking, especially when it's paired against the kind of clownish performances Anderson tries to defend. Book Reviewing
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde
Many respectable money – lenders would have required "further information" before they would discount his bills; and "clubmen" in general — save, perhaps, those ancient quidnuncs who know everybody, from Adam downwards — had but little acquaintance with him. For the term of his natural life
The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.
Tom and Tim have carted away the junk (rusting hulks of machinery) that the airport owner collected on site, so that the place is looking positively respectable.
Despite the poor show by Offaly hurlers last Sunday in Croke Park, the lure of two games is expected to draw a respectable amount of tricoloured Gaels south.
There were other terms for the divide then; the respectable and the rough working class, or the deserving and undeserving poor. The Times Literary Supplement
And far from being respectable, he had a long list of criminal convictions. The Sun

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