OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31903

respectability

/ɹɪˌspɛktəˈbɪlɪti/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
respetabilidad
The quality of being respectable.
Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family p…
Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and a…
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