Definition of Respectability

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Definition of Respectability
	Respectability The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. Related Definitions: Being, Of, Or, Quality, Respect, Respectable, State, The, Which

Respectability Quotations

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Shelley Winters

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
Mason Cooley

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike

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

Respectability Translations

respectability in German is Achtbarkeit {f}
respectability in Spanish is respetabilidad

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