Don't talk to me about respectability. I know every shady thing you've ever done. It would be a shame if the world were to ever find out about them.
Source: tatoeba (5270141)
Respectability
//ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti//
Synonyms for "respectability" (23 found)
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Related words (11)
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4 entriesderived from
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2 entriesTranslations
17 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- порядъчност noun (quality of being respectable)
- почтеност noun (quality of being respectable)
Danish
1 entries- respektabelhed noun (quality of being respectable)
Dutch
2 entries- eerbiedwaardigheid noun (quality of being respectable)
- respectabiliteit noun (quality of being respectable)
Finnish
1 entries- kunnioitettavuus noun (quality of being respectable)
French
1 entries- respectabilité noun (quality of being respectable)
Ido
1 entries- respektindeso noun (quality of being respectable)
Italian
2 entries- perbenismo noun (quality of being respectable)
- rispettabilità noun (quality of being respectable)
Polish
1 entries- przyzwoitość noun (quality of being respectable)
Portuguese
1 entries- respeitabilidade noun (quality of being respectable)
Romanian
1 entries- respectabilitate noun (quality of being respectable)
Russian
2 entries- почте́нность noun (quality of being respectable)
- респекта́бельность noun (quality of being respectable)
Spanish
1 entries- respetabilidad noun (quality of being respectable)
Swedish
1 entries- respektabilitet noun (quality of being respectable)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
He has an air of respectability about him.
Source: tatoeba (5774728)
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Source: wiktionary
Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.
Source: wiktionary
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