respectability
noun
the state or quality of being respectable.
respectabilities
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pluralof respectability.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His neuroticism, although he learned to control it. left him with a lifelong terror of going beyond the "cleanly respectabilities."
From Time Magazine Archive
We are apt to be rather down on city foplings and soft-handed respectabilities.
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
And we, perhaps, in our serene respectabilities, shrink back and wonder at it.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
He had wrapped himself in that impenetrable mantle of cold scorn, and thus he watched with a moody air the crowd of umbrella-carrying respectabilities, who hurried on their way without a thought of him.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 7, 1891 by Various
The degree to which one is incommoded with imperfect respectabilities, depends of course a good deal upon the extent of his good-nature, or his dislike of coming to strong measures in social life.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 431 Volume 17, New Series, April 3, 1852 by William Chambers
