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Recent Examples of respectability
This sort of rhetoric only adds to the hysterical nature of contemporary politics, giving respectability to uncivilized behavior.
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The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
From excellence and respectability to rage and raunch to the abstract and avant-garde.
—Lauren Morrow
september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
The most logical position from which the Saints might launch a return to respectability is offensive tackle.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
His book actually shows an outlandish idea metastasizing more slowly than that, gaining credibility and respectability over a period of a decade or more.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Their owners get respectability.
—Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
That was about respectability and good character and pedigree, high culture and social belonging.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2025
Martini plays Porter Baldwin, a cutthroat East Coast businessman clawing his way back to respectability through a land swindle in the West.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
From excellence and respectability to rage and raunch to the abstract and avant-garde.
—Lauren Morrow
september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
The most logical position from which the Saints might launch a return to respectability is offensive tackle.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
His book actually shows an outlandish idea metastasizing more slowly than that, gaining credibility and respectability over a period of a decade or more.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Their owners get respectability.
—Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
That was about respectability and good character and pedigree, high culture and social belonging.
—Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2025
Martini plays Porter Baldwin, a cutthroat East Coast businessman clawing his way back to respectability through a land swindle in the West.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectability
Noun
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What begins as a family mystery gradually opens onto broader questions of social resentment, morality and the enduring trauma of history.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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The story just keeps building on itself, adding new characters and deep complexity to what could otherwise have been a flat morality tale.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Nicole Kidman adds just the right amount of menace as a villainous taxidermist, but the heart of the movie lies in its celebration of kindness, decency and family—values that feel refreshingly radical in our cynical times.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Keeping your friend's personal things between the two of you is literally just basic human decency.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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So there's a nobility in that, but also an ickiness.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sitting for a portrait was once reserved for the elite, with kings, queens, and nobility commissioning grand works to immortalize themselves and assert their authority.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In Israel, resilience is not treated as a soft virtue but as a critical capability to absorb shocks, adapt fast, and rebuild after failure.—
Rchin Bari,
Boston Herald,
10 Sep. 2025
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That’s a shame because one of the biggest virtues of Zoox’s symmetrical 4-wheel-steering design is superior ability to do general PuDo.—
Brad Templeton,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But in fairness to the Chiefs, the coaching staff said Xavier Worthy was the centerpiece of their plan, and then he gets hurt three plays in.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The supervisors then wrote the rules for the procedures, leaving little room for fairness.—
Matthew J. Frauenfeld,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes displaying traits like conscientiousness; being organized, responsible and disciplined.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Noun
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They will be involved in that justice.—
Leah Sarnoff,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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People from all different walks of life are motivated to step to do something that will help bring justice.—
Nick Mordowanec
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In exchange, the company burnishes its halo of high-mindedness, receives the right to feature famous works on its T-shirts, and gets to stage events in empty galleries or under an iconic glass pyramid, furthering the idea that its interests lie in Life as much as in Wear.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Respectability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectability. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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