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Recent Examples of respectability
But not long after achieving mainstream respectability, Kelly’s career suffered a sharp blow.
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Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
Superfakes is about a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
There must be another sharp hockey mind out there capable of getting this team back to respectability, as Shanahan did, and then onto something much greater.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
The movie itself is equally unconcerned with respectability politics.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
Pacers Romario Shepherd and Jason Holder couldn't bowl West Indies to victory after batting their side to respectability.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
Cortina was less a pure nostalgia play than an assertion of autonomy, a statement that women in their 40s can still choose danger and ambition over quiet respectability.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
That year, Brown brought the Tar Heels back to respectability, and Drake ended up flipping and committing to North Carolina.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Previously, the ninety-six-year-old German had mapped out his country’s road back to respectability after 1945.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
Superfakes is about a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026
There must be another sharp hockey mind out there capable of getting this team back to respectability, as Shanahan did, and then onto something much greater.
—Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
The movie itself is equally unconcerned with respectability politics.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
Pacers Romario Shepherd and Jason Holder couldn't bowl West Indies to victory after batting their side to respectability.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
Cortina was less a pure nostalgia play than an assertion of autonomy, a statement that women in their 40s can still choose danger and ambition over quiet respectability.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2026
That year, Brown brought the Tar Heels back to respectability, and Drake ended up flipping and committing to North Carolina.
—Tim Rohan, NBC news, 5 Feb. 2026
Previously, the ninety-six-year-old German had mapped out his country’s road back to respectability after 1945.
—Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectability
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But Banksy has courted a public image centered around morality, justice and guerrilla tactics — he’s often likened to Robin Hood or Batman.—
Laurie Kellman,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2026
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But Banksy has courted a public image centered around morality, justice and guerrilla tactics — he’s often likened to Robin Hood or Batman.—
Laurie Kellman,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2026
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And both recognize the importance of the education of character, the cultivation of decency, and the taming of the dark passions.—
Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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The Best Actor category, in particular, has honored a wide variety of performance types, from bone-chilling turns like Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to heroic tributes to human decency like Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).—
Devan Coggan,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Mar. 2026
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Known as the Dragon Slayer, he’s often shown meditating, praying, waxing philosophical, and pontificating on nobility, integrity and honor.—
Pamela Chelin,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Gamecocks are new-age nobility in women’s basketball.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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One of Lerner’s virtues as a writer is that his work resists this relentless gathering of data (news, text messages, posts), a gathering that’s both abundant and diffuse, and that, paradoxically, feels like a giving over of one’s mind and capacities to fuzzy abstraction.—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Leo on Monday signed the decree attesting that Flanagan lived a life of heroic virtue.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Shared fairness makes today’s agreements durable and pleasant.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
28 Mar. 2026
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Austin-Gatson emphasized that Georgia's current system — primaries followed by general elections — allows voters to better evaluate candidates and ensures fairness in the process.—
CBS Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 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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Low-conscientiousness individuals (flexible thinkers) excel in fluid, unpredictable environments where plans become obsolete quickly.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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And from an intangible standpoint, the team loves his diligence and conscientiousness.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
12 Dec. 2025
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The two offenders were sentenced to two years of probation and 60 hours of community service each − one hour for each victim, Judge Leonard Brown said − meaning they will not be put into a juvenile detention facility, while technically remaining under the supervision of the juvenile justice system.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
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The justices ordered the page be released, which paved the way for the expansive powers grand juries have today to investigate and criticize public officials and entities.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Respectability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectability. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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