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Meanings of respectable in English
Portuguese
respeitável Spanish
respetable Characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals.
Synonyms
Examples for "healthy"
Examples for "healthy"
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They simply must be accompanied by good governance and healthy public administration.
2
Her passions include suicide prevention, violence prevention, healthy relationships, housing and research.
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Methods: Eighteen young healthy women drank red wine daily for 3 weeks.
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Vets are being asked to euthanise healthy animals, especially as holidays approach.
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The increased order contributed to a healthy order book worth £720 million.
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The inside of the house is quite tidy and needs no work.
2
Of particular value to local heritage groups and and tidy town committees.
3
At least Britain could fight a tidy war to an emphatic conclusion.
4
It was not, and was never likely to be, a tidy result.
5
The caretaker went in to check the police had left things tidy.
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However, pirates often treat hostages well in the hope of hefty ransoms.
2
McLaughlin said the championship was not over yet despite his hefty lead.
3
There are particularly abundant crops of hefty blackfly and greenfly this year.
4
Punishment includes a hefty fine and imprisonment for up to a year.
5
Recent investigations have ensnared major global lenders and led to hefty fines.
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Moreover, there is a goodly young woman to be taken into communion.
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The clergy now began to appear in goodly numbers upon the scene.
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There was a goodly pile of money in front of the Mexican.
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Evans brought the unwelcome news that the goodly fellowship was broken up.
5
The palace rose great and goodly enough, with the church at hand.
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In reality, given the generous qualifying regulations, quite sizeable movies often figure.
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However, he said there are few sizeable home shopping companies to buy.
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NS&I's accounts offer the best rates for easy access on sizeable sums.
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The deal would be KKR's second sizeable India investment in six months.
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Several Gulf countries have a sizeable population of Keralites as expatriate workers.
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A sizable minority of Americans continue to think coronavirus concerns are overblown.
2
A sizable number of RealAudio radio broadcasts, many quite underground, already exist.
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Some were Arabs, likely members of the sizable Palestinian population at Quaid-I-Azam.
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Their reach to a global customer base is quite sizable, she said.
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Energy firms marked sizable gains as oil prices held near 8-month peaks.
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This afternoon, I have written three very slow, short but goodish paragraphs.
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I have to go up to the house a goodish bit, sur.
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No mistake: he had a goodish way to go- along ,longway.
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Three lumbermen, two goodish-sized yachts, a dozen sloop-rigged boats: not so bad.
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They won't be taking up the nets for a goodish while yet.
Usage of respectable in English
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Labour would have a perfectly respectable plan for dealing with the crisis.
2
Nevertheless, the theory of panspermia persists as a respectable minority scientific opinion.
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Bohemian yet respectable, intoxicating yet safe: it seemed like the perfect adventure.
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The account had been created 11 months earlier, a modestly respectable duration.
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But I want to know about her family-arethey respectable people too?
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Altogether a most reasonable conversation; a most respectable room; an intelligent girl.
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They were traveling a respectable seventy-five miles per hour on Route 60.
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The door opened; the respectable servant came out with a respectful air.
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The effect of this example is appearing in the most respectable quarters.
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This was the argument they used if they wanted to sound respectable.
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Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable.
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The man did not look respectable; Cytherea arose and bolted the door.
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For these reasons and others, critics have never thought it wholly respectable.
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I was thinking of someone more respectable, of a more reasonable age.
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The Sea Horse Tavern was a respectable one-story establishment near the waterfront.
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The house was of modest proportions; but seemed respectable and well kept.
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