Adjective : a reputable organization. ,reputable speech. From Dictionary.com.
Science is concerned with replicability and verifiability, not reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Graybill and Funkhouser [1993] on Bristlecones « Climate Audit] Reference
They make exceptions for those who have shown their reputability by becoming religious leaders. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » A Minor but Annoying Example of Unconstitutional Religious Discrimination in Virginia Marriage Law:] Reference
Striving for academic reputability, the researchers at the KPU are incredibly careful about their methodology and their language. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives] Reference
Check the reputability of your would-be agents through one of the best safety nets out there for unagented writers, Preditors & Editors. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » From the Mailbox: “How do I find an agent?”] Reference
From time to time he glanced toward Berkeley waiting there in suave dark-red reputability, an open book lying suggestively on his cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
However, it is also a satire on the mores of the rich — and it is interesting to see how little has changed in what Veblen termed "pecuniary reputability.". From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus Of Pleasure] Reference
I defy you to produce reliable data to the contrary something from the Lancet or JAMA would do nicely, but anything of that level of quality and reputability. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference
I defy you to produce reliable data to the contrary (something from the Lancet or JAMA would do nicely, but anything of that level of quality and reputability). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England] Reference
Quantifying a school's 'reputation' might be harder to quantify, unless you pick certain aspects of the school, and then determine whether or not these things signify a school's reputability or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Parsons wrap-up] Reference
Most people get their health insurance through their employer, and the reputability of the health insurance provider is pretty far down the list of considerations when deciding what company to work for. From Wordnik.com. [When Doesn't Reputation Work Well?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of reputability in. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
"You see now why I requested you to investigate our reputability?" he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose-Garden Husband] Reference
They were at first envious of his reputability, and that pleased him while it lasted. From Wordnik.com. [Pirate Gold] Reference
Elegant diction, whether in writing or speaking, is an effective means of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
And in addition to this, the devout observances also commend themselves to this class on the ground of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
If it's cloaked, coated, or even lacquered in something that resembles reputability, knowledge, or answers, it will do. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
The canon of reputability is at hand and seizes upon such innovations as are, according to its standard, fit to survive. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
But the requirements of pecuniary reputability and those of beauty in the naive sense do not in any appreciable degree coincide. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
This is more particularly true as regards valuation on grounds so closely related to the aesthetic ground as that of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The early ascendency of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The insistence on property as the basis of reputability is very naive and very imperious during the early stages of the accumulation of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
They serve the decorative ends of leisure-class learning better than any other body of knowledge, and hence they are an effective means of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
As has already been seen, the imperative example set by the upper class in fixing the canons of reputability fosters the practice of conspicuous consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The latter have not yet had time to divest themselves of the plebeian canons of taste and of reputability carried over from their former, lower pecuniary grade. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
Yet there is no room to question their attractiveness to men into whose scheme of life they fit as honorific items sanctioned by the requirements of pecuniary reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
A certain standard of wealth in the one case, and of prowess in the other, is a necessary condition of reputability, and anything in excess of this normal amount is meritorious. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
It acts to accentuate the struggle for pecuniary reputability by visiting with a sharper disapproval all shortcoming and all evidence of shortcoming in point of pecuniary success. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
These canons of reputability have had a similar, but more far-reaching and more specifically determinable, effect upon the popular sense of beauty or serviceability in consumable goods. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
As has been seen in an earlier chapter, the canons of reputability or decency under the pecuniary culture insist on habitual futility of effort as the mark of a pecuniarily blameless life. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The connection which is here insisted on between the reputability and the apprehended beauty of objects lies through the effect which the fact of reputability has upon the valuer's habits of thought. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
This use being not lucrative, but on the whole pretty consistently wasteful, and quite conspicuously so, it is honorific, and therefore gives the fast horse a strong presumptive position of reputability. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
The demands of reputability in this way coalesce in the popular apprehension with the demands of the sense of beauty, and beauty which is not accompanied by the accredited marks of good repute is not accepted. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
It is true, the corset impairs the personal attractions of the wearer, but the loss suffered on that score is offset by the gain in reputability which comes of her visibly increased expensiveness and infirmity. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
But since the pecuniary canon of reputability rejects the inexpensive in articles appropriated to individual consumption, the satisfaction of our craving for beautiful things must be sought by way of compromise. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
It was a strange thing, a very strange thing indeed, that interlopers should have been permitted to oust the wealth and reputability of Polterham from an Institute which ought to have been one of the bulwarks of. From Wordnik.com. [Denzil Quarrier] Reference
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