Characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals.
Large in amount or extent or degree.
Deserving of esteem and respect.
1 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.
3 Bohemian yet respectable , intoxicating yet safe: it seemed like the perfect adventure.
4 The account had been created 11 months earlier, a modestly respectable duration.
5 But I want to know about her family-arethey respectable people too?
6 Altogether a most reasonable conversation; a most respectable room; an intelligent girl.
7 They were traveling a respectable seventy-five miles per hour on Route 60.
8 The door opened; the respectable servant came out with a respectful air.
9 The effect of this example is appearing in the most respectable quarters.
10 This was the argument they used if they wanted to sound respectable .
11 Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable .
12 The man did not look respectable ; Cytherea arose and bolted the door.
13 For these reasons and others, critics have never thought it wholly respectable .
14 I was thinking of someone more respectable , of a more reasonable age.
15 The Sea Horse Tavern was a respectable one-story establishment near the waterfront.
16 The house was of modest proportions; but seemed respectable and well kept.
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