Example Sentences

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You must 'a' broke some ordinance in that long career of disrespectability of yours.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

Her taste for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

The same dissatisfaction must be confessed with Previsa Salonica, that place of steady disrespectability, which has maintained its bad character since the apostolic days, and even with Constantinople.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various