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/rɪspˈɛktəbəl/ /rispˈɛktəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Respectable adj.

Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen. "The respectable quarter of Sicca." "No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable."

Moderate in degree of excellence or in number; as, a respectable performance; a respectable audience.

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Etymology of 'Respectable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Respectable" Quotes from Famous Books

... occupied. I shall waste no more of it in giving advice to young women who are as proud as peacocks, and as poor as church-mice. If it wasn't for that highly respectable young man, your husband, I should say it served ...

— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

... was a semi-respectable activity among hackers; there was a gentleman's agreement that phreaking as an intellectual game and a form of exploration was OK, but serious theft of services was taboo. There was significant crossover between the hacker community and the hard-core ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... philanthropic purposes. A vast number of the commoners too were idle thriftless beings, whose rights on a few acres enabled them to live a life of pilfering and poaching; and it was a very good thing when such people were induced to lead a more regular and respectable existence. The great blot on the process was that it made the English labourer a landless man. Compensation was given him at the time of enclosure in the shape of allotments or sums of money, but the former he was generally compelled to give up owing to the expense he had been put ...

— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler

... two threads are distinct, and yet happily interwoven. Let us take Lady Dedlock's thread first. She is the wife of Sir Leicester Dedlock, whose "family is as old as the hills, and a great deal more respectable," and she is still very beautiful, though no longer in the bloom of youth, and she is cold and haughty of manner, as a woman of highest fashion sometimes may be. But in her past there is an ugly hidden secret; and a girl of sweetest disposition walks her kindly course ...

— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials

... was so far removed from the higher criticism that it had to do with the ancient, respectable, and lamented bar-of-judgment theory. ...

— The Four Million • O. Henry

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