respectableness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for respectableness
Noun
  • Reviewers love its texture, temperature-regulating qualities, and its suitability for all seasons.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 3 Oct. 2025
  • However, investment brokers must follow a suitability standard, which means that recommendations may be appropriate but not necessarily the best option.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The crime drama follows 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.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Shaheen Afridi hit four sixes in his unbeaten 33 to lend some respectability to Pakistan's total.
    Amlan Chakraborty, Reuters, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, political observers and those on the right know that Kirk, as founder of Turning Point USA, was at heart an activist who transformed conservative youth politics through his robust organizing network and, in the process, changed the social acceptability of Trumpism among America's youth.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • From my perspective, the real measure of acceptability isn't whether AI assisted in the process, but whether the final output demonstrates sound reasoning, originality and accuracy.
    Morey Haber, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • There are few people in human history whose last names alone are sufficient to conjure up kindness, goodness, wisdom, grace—Mandela, Gandhi, King, Lincoln.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Any starchy side to soak up all the goodness!
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The appropriateness tests that platforms like Saxo will implement serve as additional safeguards.
    Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Property owners must apply for a special permit, called a certificate of appropriateness, to demolish a building on the local historic register.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In deference to the late, great Ryne Sandberg, who died from acute prostate cancer this past July at 65, this column about the current Cubs-Padres Wild Card Series at Wrigley Field is for him.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • For human rights advocates, Johnson’s reluctance to forcefully criticize Bukele at the time was a sign of his undue deference to the Salvadoran leader.
    T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For all that Donnarumma and Haaland can provide City with a weighty presence in both boxes, the continuing fitness concerns over Rodri could yet be City’s undoing this season.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The soft, stretchy fabric and elastic waistband keep them comfortable, while the sleek design works for fitness classes, errands, or even a casual night out.
    Jacqueline Tempera, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • So woke and political correctness are basically the same thing.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • In contrast, today there are many million individual pieces of evidence in every branch of biology, all of which support and none of which refute the essential correctness of Darwin’s theory.
    D. Scott Schmid, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Respectableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectableness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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