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Recent Examples of respectability
His book actually shows an outlandish idea metastasizing more slowly than that, gaining credibility and respectability over a period of a decade or more.
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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
Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
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
Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
—Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectability
Noun
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This deep connection between trees and morality is further evidenced in a trope of Western literature in which humans are transformed into trees, sometimes as an embodiment of sin.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Rebecca Ferguson stars as Captain Olivia Walker, a senior White House official tasked with keeping the government functioning as panic sets in, while Idris Elba plays a top national security adviser who must balance strategy with morality.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In an unprecedented breach of law and decency, the president is threatening to send federal forces to our city, in an unironic attempt to combat nonexistent lawlessness in Chicago.—
Ciera Bates-Chamberlain,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Some feel the lines of basic human decency have eroded.—
Annie Heilbrunn,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The visual suggests the film’s exploration of decaying nobility and internal conflict.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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Even with the wheels starting to come off the British empire (this show is basically a Downton prequel), a place in English nobility will give the Russell heiress an otherwise unattainable level of social power, stationing her on the uppermost echelon of global influence.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Becoming a saint In the Catholic faith, sainthood is reserved for those who have lived a life of heroic virtues, offered their life for others or died for their faith, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.—
Lauren Costantino
September 6,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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Was one of Forest’s virtues last season their relative simplicity, which will now be disrupted?—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Perceived fairness is one of the strongest predictors of relationship satisfaction.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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But 1976 had nobody — and not even anybody, in fairness, who can feel particularly ‘robbed’ of an England cap.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
6 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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Pheu Thai had put forward its last remaining candidate for prime minister, the former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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His work specializes in economic, social, and ecological justice.—
John Scott Lewinski,
The Washington Examiner,
5 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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