Definition of Respectable

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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

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

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

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

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

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
Charles Baudelaire

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

Respectable Translations

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

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