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Meanings of respectability in inglês

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Honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation.

respectabilitat
Usage of respectability in inglês
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Somehow or other, respectability-inposition, in morals, in religion, in conduct-waseverything.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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And she will die in the odor of tubbed and scrubbed respectability.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
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Formal society proclaimed the family and made it the standard for respectability.
Woman in Modern Society
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Our girl no longer maintained even a modicum of respectability at home.
The brief wondrous life of oscar wao
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He liked comfort, and revelled in the sense of security and respectability.
For the Term of His Natural Life
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Nor does he seem any more concerned with respectability, despite The Lady.
The Guardian
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It would conduce to the public, weal, and to their personal respectability.
The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton / A Novel: Founde...
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The person from whom I had the information is of undoubted respectability.
Diary in America, Series One
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As the years went by, Little's hard-won respectability dropped away from him.
Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ...
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The village, though irregular, had a general air of thriftiness and respectability.
What Can She Do?
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The respectability of the country's appearance awakened answering chords in his nature.
The War in the Air
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It'd had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability.
Main Street
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The respectability that still clung to him made him the more ludicrous.
The Dark House
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Nor was this all: his very personal respectability was no longer unimpeachable.
The Disowned — Volume 04
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Selfish respectability is most unwholesome in its unhealthy sympathy with selfish respectability.
The Freedom of Life
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It got me the money to make my first play for respectability.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common