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Sentence count:254+9Posted:2016-10-27Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: contemptibleSimilar words: respectdelectablerespectivelywith respect toirrespective ofspectaclespectaculartablespoonMeaning: [rɪ'spektəbl]  adj. 1. characterized by proper behavior or conventional conduct; worthy of respect 2. deserving of esteem and respect 3. large in amount or extent or degree. 
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61, A member of the picturesque Aberfoyle Golf Club, with a respectable 15 handicap, Roy remembers his inauspicious beginnings.
62, It threw too many respectable people on to the Poor Law and caused the loss of many working days.
63, Well, maybe not soaring, but up far enough to look respectable for a while.
64, He would go to his evening reading in his most respectable suit and brazen it out.
65, J.B. Yes, but yes it was a deliberate act on my part to be respectable.
66, As the Wesleyan Methodists became increasingly respectable they too built grandiose chapels in the suburbs.
67, Human beings would be better and more respectable if drug addicts had not been born. Dr T.P.Chia 
68, For many years, most respectable doctors shunned the use of diet pills.
69, But on the other hand, this respectable ideology was deeply rooted in the general experience of working-class life.
70, Of the elements composing the rainbow coalition, Marxism is the most prominent and intellectually respectable.
71, Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell 
72, Chandler worried that the scandal would destroy his chances for a respectable career.
73, The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.
74, She received warm applause, and during the interval respectable queues formed before her table of books,[sentencedict.com] as before N'dosi's.
75, Singing was fun, but realistically, I knew I had to choose something more respectable.
76, The libertarian view is still barely acknowledged by Soviet historians and is treated by most western historians as not wholly academically respectable.
77, The case is a chilling reminder of how ordinary, seemingly respectable citizens still have racist and deeply intolerant views.
78, They are only made possible by enzymes - biological catalysts that speed up their chemical reactions to a respectable level.
79, This was the most respectable strain of Unionist opposition to the coalition.
80, The Governor Eyre controversy dragged on for a number of years, creating deep divisions within respectable society.
81, Review by Simon Caulkin As a genre, the business documentary has a respectable literary parentage.
82, But the fact remains that Wolf and the tendency Wolf represented made an inward-looking discipline possible and, ultimately, respectable.
83, Reynolds newspaper declared it surprising that any respectable paper should advertise such wares.
84, By the nineteenth century it was a highly respectable area lived in by bankers amongst others.
85, She smiled at the thought while she changed again into something very respectable and went out for provisions.
86, In each ward, two workers canvassed some 2,000 voters and polled a respectable vote.
87, Unconsciously perhaps Jeanne was seeking to free herself from her narrow and oppressively respectable bourgeois family.
88, It was very nearly respectable, reaching over half way down her thighs.
89, The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.
90, The barge-dwellers, creatures neither of firm land nor water, would have liked to be more respectable than they were.
More similar words: respectdelectablerespectivelywith respect toirrespective ofspectaclespectaculartablespoonespeciallytableaspectnotablesuspecttableauprospectspectrumvegetablesuitableinspectortimetableadaptableon the tableinspectionintrospectperspectivecreditableacceptableinevitableimpeccablecircumspect
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