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Respectable

adjective

Characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals.

Deserving of esteem and respect. Synonyms: estimable, good, honorable. "Ruined the family's good name"

Large in amount or extent or degree. Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, sizable, sizeable, tidy. "A goodly amount" , "Received a hefty bonus" , "A respectable sum" , "A tidy sum of money" , "A sizable fortune"

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"Respectable" Quotes from Famous Books

... magnificent wedding, as WILFRID of Ivanhoe, no longer the disowned, but the heir to estates belonging to a highly respectable county family led ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 • Various

... old maid devouring "What Every Girl of Forty-Five Should Know" behind the door. As for Chesterton, his banal arguments in favour of alcohol shocked the country so greatly that his previous high services to religious superstition were forgotten, and today he is seldom mentioned by respectable Americans. ...

— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

... her return, and declared he would divorce her. From this he was turned by the prayers of Eugene and Hortense Beauharnais, and the tears of Josephine herself. A reconciliation took place; but there was no reunion of hearts, and Mme. Reinhard echoed the feeling of respectable society when she wrote that he should have divorced her outright. Thenceforth he lived for ...

— The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2) • John Holland Rose

... Versailles. They were the first to assert the lawful authority of the new priesthood. They revolted deliberately and in set form against the old system of suitorship and protection. "Happy are men of letters," wrote D'Alembert, "if they recognise at last that the surest way of making themselves respectable is to live united and almost shut up among themselves; that by this union they will come, without any trouble, to give the law to the rest of the nation in all affairs of taste and philosophy; that the true esteem is that which is awarded by men who are themselves worthy of esteem.... As if the ...

— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley

... in the secret places of her mind, a darker and guiltier thought than that. But let not our condemnation be too unconditional, lest the precedent come home, some day, to ourselves. It may astonish us, hereafter, to discover how many of our most respectable ...

— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne

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