Word Finder - respectable

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Deserving respect.

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His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.

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Decent; satisfactory.

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Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable.  She plays a respectable game of chess.  He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.

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Moderately well-to-do.

It sounds like he's a respectable person who likes to keep to his self.

It is simpler and more respectable to omit it.

She had changed into respectable clothes and looked painfully beautiful.

The crowd was respectable although it looked smaller due to the large size of the building.

Yet the opposition gained recruits among all the ablest and most respectable Tuscans.

There is a respectable amount of Afghan literature.

She, curiously, is the kuata or " go-between," even though her services are only employed in the respectable task of arranging marriages.

She established herself as a respectable leader through loyalty, candor, and determination.

The statements as to his parentage and early life are conflicting; but it seems probable that his parents, though poor, were respectable.

Besides being bad philosophy based on fictitious history, Christianity is not respectable.

The collection of trees in the Botanic Garden at Cambridge is also one of respectable proportions.

They dance in public, at fairs and religious festivals, and at private festivities, but, it is said, not in respectable houses.

Whilst it can never (in the absence of any great mineral wealth) develop into a wealthy country, it can at least support its own population; and it would, but for the short-sighted trade policy of Abdur Rahman, certainly have risen to a position of respectable solvency.

But the Hebrew ancestry of the Afghans is more worthy at least of consideration, for a respectable number of intelligent officers, well acquainted with the Afghans, have been strong in their belief of it; and though the customs alleged in proof will not bear the stress laid on them, undoubtedly a prevailing type of the Afghan physiognomy has a character strongly Jewish.

A still more questionable measure of Ibn Hobaira was his ordering the successor of Said Harashi to extort large sums of money from several of the most respectable Khorasanians.

Classicism in the shape of solid, respectable Hummel on the one hand, and Carl Czerny, a trifle flippant, perhaps, and inclined to appeal to the gallery, on the other, these gave the musical parentage of young Liszt.

Of the so-called deists Shaftesbury was probably the most important, as he was certainly the most plausible and the most respectable.

The movement began among the Arab officers, who complained of the preference shown to the officers of Turkish origin; it then expanded into an attack on the privileged position and predominant influence of foreigners, many of whom, it must be confessed, were of a by no means respectable type; finally, it was directed against all Christians, foreign and native.i The government, being too weak to suppress the agitation and disorder, had to make concessions, and each concession produced fresh demands.

In 1786 he published An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Mr Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity (Dutch translation, Utrecht, 1793), one of the most respectable of the very many replies which were made to the famous 15th and 16th chapters of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Through all changes, of government vernacular instruction in its simplest form has always been given, at least to the children of respectable classes, in every large village.

This led him into the society of those outcasts who were condemned and rejected by the respectable and righteous classes.

The land being appropriated by the conquerors, husbandry, as the most respectable industrial occupation, became the legitimate calling of the Aryan settler, the Vaisya; whilst handicrafts, gradually multiplying with advancing civilization and menial service, were assigned to the subject race.

There are, however, not a few classes of Brahmans who, for various reasons, have become degraded from their high station, and formed separate castes with whom respectable Brahmans refuse to intermarry and consort.

In fact, the respectable Hindu, whilst owning special allegiance to one of the two gods as his ishta devata (favourite deity), will not withhold his tribute of adoration from the other gods of the pantheon.

The Sakta cult is, however, known to be especially prevalent - though apparently not in a very extreme form - amongst members of the very respectable Kayastha or writer caste of Bengal, and as these are largely employed as clerks and accountants in Upper India, there is reason to fear that their vicious practices are gradually being disseminated through them.

Postel, he proceeded to attack Hebrew, and then Arabic; of both he acquired a respectable knowledge, though not the critical mastery which he possessed in Latin and Greek.

Archbishop Neville was a respectable scholar; and he was a considerable benefactor of the university of Oxford and especially of Balliol College.

Those who, as it has been happily put, identify Rabelais with Pantagruel, strive in vain, on any view intellectually consistent or morally respectable, to account for the vast ocean of pure or impure laughter and foolery which surrounds the few solid islets of sense and reason and devotion.

It was indeed represented by a long line of respectable names.

The restitution money was divided among the sufferers by a committee of the most respectable inhabitants.

The elections took place early in May 1871, and the government, to which all the most respectable elements in the country had rallied, obtained a large majority.

Those who wanted a more thorough revolution wrought up the crowd and even respectable citizens wished to have the Removal king among them and amenable to their opinion.

These horrors were enacted by day, in a thoroughfare crowded with "respectable" citizens sheltered from the rain by umbrellas.

It is still not aristocratic, but it is eminently respectable.

I'm not going to join in what appears to be an exercise in making the BNP appear respectable.

I dared not tell him she was someone else's wife as he seemed so respectable.

Only James Grady battled to the end in make the scoreline look slightly more respectable.

The BNP becomes more respectable with every passing election.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the novel was still a young form and not considered wholly respectable.

When the gospel is powerful and when the church is influential, then the world is made respectable.

Before we stopped at Exbourne we got one of our call-change ringers through a pretty respectable quarter peal ringing the treble.

These guidelines can help ensure that a respectable graduation ceremony will take place.

No matter how lonely you might feel, stay respectable.

People have been asking ever since how the penniless man of letters was able to raise so large a sum in the first instance, and how he was able to keep up a respectable establishment afterwards.

In Paris the armed ruffians who had long preyed upon respectable citizens were organized as a revolutionary army, and other revolutionary armies were established in the provinces.

This produced fresh complications, and an increasing desire among the respectable settlers for a competent civil and criminal jurisdiction.

Neither the family nor property was violently attacked; the church and the monarchy still appeafed to most people two respectable and respected institutions.

The next stop was Gresford's impressive Perpendicular parish church, containing a respectable 1912 Hill, where Roger Hill played some chorale preludes.

As a result, our diagram only includes very common logic circuits from the CMOS 4000 family, with quite respectable results.

The democratic opposition that the West likes, the respectable centrist opposition, will not counterpoise itself to the Nationalists.