Crossword-Solution: RESPECTABILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Respectability | n. | The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “RESPECTABILITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| OUTWARD conditions of decent life | 2 answers |
| the state of being respectable | 2 answers |
| Repute | 18 answers |
| GOOD name | 39 answers |
| ___ good faith | 40 answers |
| GOOD points | 61 answers |
| Faithful-ness | 65 answers |
| fidelity | 74 answers |
| Reputation | 77 answers |
| Integrity. | 82 answers |
| Fame | 84 answers |
| Goodness | 87 answers |
| Esteem | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RESPECTABILITY (5)
These owners of the two most appreciative throats in the neighbourhood, on this side of respectability, were now sitting face to face over a three-legged circular table, having an iron rim to keep cups and pots from being accidentally elbowed off; they might have been said to resemble the setting sun and the full moon shining _vis-à-vis_ across the globe.
Planted deep, in the town’s earliest infancy and childhood, by these two earnest and energetic men, the race has ever since subsisted here; always, too, in respectability; never, so far as I have known, disgraced by a single unworthy member; but seldom or never, on the other hand, after the first two generations, performing any memorable deed, or so much as putting forward a claim to public notice.
Darwinism and related theories in anthropology and sociology helped to give an aura of respectability to racism in both Europe and America.
The young man was tried and convicted of the crime; but either the circumstantial nature of the evidence, and possibly some lurking doubts in the breast of the executive, or, lastly—an argument of greater weight in a republic than it could have been under a monarchy,—the high respectability and political influence of the criminal’s connections, had availed to mitigate his doom from death to perpetual imprisonment.
For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter? Yet such things were.
Quotes with RESPECTABILITY (3)
I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability.
Advice," Doña Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.