respectable men and women content with the good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live. From LearnThat.org. [William P. Merrill]
All respectable companies give guarantees. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A respectable woman. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Well, it's not what I call respectable to have your children in and out of gaol. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny's First Play] Reference
'Now that's what I call a respectable turn-out!' was the phrase passed from mouth to mouth in the crowd gathering near the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
It's in respectable businesses 'hands, where they'll card. From Wordnik.com. [Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops] Reference
The plain respectable household of the Keeps, was almost within call of us. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference
He then instances the case of the man whom he describes as a respectable Hottentot. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
If the Democratic National Commitee gives up on this, how reliable, how respectable is this party?. From Wordnik.com. [Michigan Dems send latest delegate plan to DNC] Reference
I've nothing against 'sæm@raI, which is a perfectly respectable adaptation of the Japanese word to English phonology. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: QUIPU.] Reference
It seems this whole debacle is receiving some attention in respectable media outlets like Encyclopedia Dramatica (NSFW). From Wordnik.com. [WHO WAS "DEEP FACE"?] Reference
Evil is tolerating their pretense of being decent human beings worthy of courtesy and membership in respectable society. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History] Reference
Only two fourth-quarter TDs made the final margin respectable for the Bears (0-3), who have been outscored, 111-43, this year. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com] Reference
Next to them sat Mr Stribbling, the blacksmith, and family, plain respectable people, though he, to my youthful eyes, was very ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference
Creator, and this in the so-called respectable dance-hall. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years with the Outcast] Reference
Or you can become what is called a respectable business man. From Wordnik.com. [The Face and the Mask] Reference
These companions were what is termed respectable, but they drank. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers] Reference
KING: Did they have what might be called respectable professions?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2002] Reference
And calling respectable men, boys is insufferable even to me a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Did Hillary "Play The Gender Card"?] Reference
But now the so-called respectable people are jumping on the bigoted bandwagon. From Wordnik.com. [Pardon, your pointy white hood is showing . . .] Reference
I belong to that social group, of course, to what are known as respectable people. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Memoirs]
Of the three overseers who were present, not one could be called a respectable man. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
They are now respectable, which is well known by those who are acquainted with them. From Wordnik.com. [Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference
Rebellion, and instead of being known as a respectable vocation, was considered as none at all. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Sometimes that rag has a better chance of getting the story right than so-called respectable media outlets. From Wordnik.com. [Jermaine Dupri: Let's Have a Real Conversation] Reference
Give them education instead, Mr Azad The so-called respectable men: let me introduce you with 2 one of them. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
There is, in other words, a respectable argument that the cynics who are barking so loudly are simply wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Vp Al Gore Harvard Commencement Speech] Reference
I saw nobleness in dens, and meanness in palaces; virtue among prostitutes, and vice among so-called respectable women. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia] Reference
So it is no disparagement to this larger view if it does not come to us through what the world calls respectable channels. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"But this is a saloon, and it 'aint just what you might call respectable for ladies to be sittin' in a saloon, now, is it?". From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Manmohan Singh is described as a respectable and reasonable man and a good prime minister. required (email will never be displayed). From Wordnik.com. [arabnews - frontpage] Reference
The two extremes of the treatment of women might be represented by what are called the respectable classes in America and in France. From Wordnik.com. [G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study] Reference
One lounges forever in an air of indolent ease and extreme aversion to anything approaching what might be called a respectable effort. From Wordnik.com. [An Epoch in History] Reference
The idea of charging anyone who is known as a respectable young man with such a thing as that, and shutting him up without a question. From Wordnik.com. [A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia] Reference
If it fails, it will be because of the half-hearted support we receive from so-called respectable temperance men and moderate drinkers. From Wordnik.com. [From Wealth to Poverty] Reference
It's okay to be definable and predictable as long as you are defined as respectable, trustworthy, caring, indefatigable and dependable. From Wordnik.com. [Core Values: Your GPS To Heaven - Bob Sherman - MediaBizBloggers] Reference
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