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" (34 found)
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Verb(1 words)
enhance reputation
Noun(1 words)
image management
Related words (17)
Noun(8 words)
Verb(1 words)
protect reputation
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8 entriesappearance enhancementdress codelocal standingmoral standingprofessional standingpublic relationspublic standingsocial standing
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6 entriesappearance of respectabilityhigh respectabilitymoral respectabilitypublic respectabilityrespectability politicssocial respectability
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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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