46 adjectives to describe respectability

Common minds, which must always associate a certain conventional respectability with the forms of religion, will think it irreverent.

He soon found employment as a printer and retrieved his fortunes, leading a gay life, and spending his money, as fast as he earned it, at theatres and in social enjoyments with boon companions of doubtful respectability.

Gallantry was not his aim, but a solid and somewhat oppressive respectability.

The general fittings and arrangements of the church indicate plainness of design, combined with medium strength and thorough respectability.

In Vienna, he met Paula Carresford, an American opera singer, young, extraordinarily beautiful, and of unimpeachable respectability.

Of course, the gentlemanly, good-humored Doctor is not to be considered a villain in the ordinary acceptation of the word; he is only a technical villain,a villain of eminent respectability.

Her father was an attorney, and, by his activity in business, rose to considerable respectability in that place.

It is better built than a house of the same size would be built now, and it has a certain old-fashioned respectability, but that is the end of its praises.

No shadow of frigid respectability hangs over people's actions and freezes spontaneousness.

Moreover there was always her family to cope with, dyed in the wool New Englanders at that, no doubt with the heavy Puritan mortmain upon them, narrow as a shoe string, circumscribed as a duck pond, walled in by ghastly respectability.

The more ordinary features of main streetsthe marts of jewellery, drapery, and tobaccohad an air of grandiose respectability; while the narrow alleys that curved enigmatically away between the lofty buildings of these fine thoroughfares beckoned darkly to the fancy.

In the broad market-square the houses are large, but their gray respectability is broken by creepers and some pleasant spots of colour.

After all, he does but say what every one round him was feeling and thinking; but he said it; and hypocritical respectability shrank shrieking from the mirror of her own inner heart.

When the detective in a police romance stands alone, and somewhat fatuously fearless amid the knives and fists of a thieves' kitchen, it does certainly serve to make us remember that it is the agent of social justice who is the original and poetic figure, while the burglars and footpads are merely placid old cosmic conservatives, happy in the immemorial respectability of apes and wolves.

This has encouraged a taste for scientific studies, and for travelling; which must ultimately tend to raise the nation to a degree of respectability little inferior to the oldest European state.

David the butler, a man of infinite respectability, came softly into the hall and approached his master.

A life of Thomas Paine, in two portly and well-printed volumes, with gilt tops, wide margins, spare leaves at the end, and all the other signs and tokens of literary respectability, has lately appeared.

He imposed his taste upon his household, and gave it a certain marked respectability which betrayed no information about his fortune.

All the ladies of this dignified official household wore the same look of somewhat melancholy respectability.

But as I remarked in the beginning, I have stood outside the fray and watched similar ventures, and I have grown to realize that it is not mere respectability and chastity in a woman which make her a safe chaperon for a young girl,it is a deep, full, broad understanding of temperaments and temptations.

John Keats, the son of a keeper of a large livery stable, a man "fine in common sense and native respectability," was born in Moorfields, London, in 1795.

Take vice away, and you have not necessarily virtue; you might have negative respectability.

It is her future happiness you must think ofand respectability.

In February of the following year he was separated from Lady Byron, and left England forever, pursued by the execrations of outraged respectability.

This is great antiquity for America, which, while it has produced many families of greater wealth, and renown, and importance, than that of the Gardiners, has seldom produced any of more permanent local respectability.

46 adjectives to describe  respectability