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Noun
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This emphasis on wholesome working-class respectability is heedless of the ’60s rushing toward them, a decade that, by 1958, the other counselors have prematurely embraced.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026 -
An impending free agent looking for a big payday, Chisholm still has a long way to go before his numbers reach respectability.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
16 May 2026
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Innovation should not come at the expense of accountability or fairness.—
Cleve Mesidor,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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The National Football League, for all its flaws, understands the commercial necessity of approximating fairness.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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The experiment consisted of examining human traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness, empathy, etc.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Two programs Dudamel led in March were powerful examples of civic conscientiousness.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2026
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Hollywood had, for decades, been governed by the restrictive Hays Code, which attempted to push moviemaking into Puritan morality.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
1 June 2026
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Regulating morality becomes the norm and is futile when trying to regulate each individual, business, community group in a society.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Building a reputation for trustworthiness and fairness through transparent actions and accountability also helps reinforce one’s incorruptibility.—
Nancy Pulciano,
Rolling Stone,
20 Feb. 2026
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While critics say these changes are merely cosmetic, many ordinary Bangladeshis have been sold on the veneer of incorruptibility that comes from a theological under-pinning.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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We were constantly informed that our purpose was to become genteel and inculcated in Christian virtue.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 May 2026
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At the end of the eighteenth century, the West’s power brokers, eager to exude stolid republican virtue, abjured decoration and ornament, sparking what the British psychologist John Flügel called the Great Masculine Renunciation.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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The Korean nobility of bygone eras simply had better taste.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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In particular, popes wanted to select the church’s bishops rather than allowing nobility or a king to do so.—
Joëlle Rollo-Koster,
Fortune,
15 Apr. 2026
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The next step is the dissolution of truth and the prioritisation of loyalty above decency.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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But it can also be felt beyond it, in the political culture of this country — one in which ruthlessness and fraudulent fear-mongering can outperform decency and truth in the fight for power.—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
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“Reputability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reputability. Accessed 2 Jun. 2026.
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