Meanings of reputability in English

Elegant diction, whether in writing or speaking, is an effective means of reputability.

Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability.

Employments fall into a hierarchical gradation of reputability.

English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste.

The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of reputability in a much higher degree than the industrial employments.

Since the coup against him, however, not much can be said about the reputability of Cosatu and its partners.

And in addition to this, the devout observances also commend themselves to this class on the ground of reputability.

The standard of reputability requires that dress should show wasteful expenditure; but all wastefulness is offensive to native taste.

But the requirements of pecuniary reputability and those of beauty in the naive sense do not in any appreciable degree coincide.

The early ascendency of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments.

This is more particularly true as regards valuation on grounds so closely related to the aesthetic ground as that of reputability.

The canon of reputability is at hand and seizes upon such innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive.

From time to time he glanced toward Berkeley waiting there in suave dark-red reputability, an open book lying suggestively on his cushions.

The insistence on property as the basis of reputability is very naive and very imperious during the early stages of the accumulation of wealth.

Therefore it is the first and readiest test of reputability in learning, and conformity to its ritual is indispensable to a blameless scholastic life.

It is not only with respect to consumable goods-includingdomestic animals-thatthe canons of taste have been colored by the canons of pecuniary reputability.