Example Sentences

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Indeed, the good, cheap, unrespectable, unambitious variety of scare flick has mostly disappeared from the big screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

Meanwhile, Keeler was in a tradition of unrespectable women in the public eye that goes back to Restoration royal mistresses such as Nell Gwyn.

From The Guardian • May 1, 2013

The Social Network, in its high-mindedness, monopolised the subject of the web and stole Middle Men's thunder, making it look dated and unrespectable.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011

Jean Baptiste Poquelin, son of respectable parents, assumed the name "M�liere" when he joined an unrespectable troupe of vagabond players.

From Time Magazine Archive

To show his independence Monsieur Trotsky was sitting on the table; others were without collars and in the most unrespectable state of humor.

From Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated by Smythe, James P.