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Example sentences for: respectability

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If anyone could describe the sickening plunge from respectability to degradation (and if anyone could learn something from the experience), surely it would be Wachtler, who fell as far and fast as anyone can.
An association with respectability has been the central image of alcohol and tobacco advertising for much of the century.
Not wanting to be seen as a censor is the defense of nearly everyone who has helped MacDonald make his upward climb toward respectability.
To his credit, though, even Mick Jagger feels the trend toward rock respectability is going too far.
The existence of surf beaches within the environs of Sydney--at Bondi, Bronte, Coogee, and Tamarama in the south and Manly to the north--meant that the battle of the beaches was fought in Sydney, and, when respectability was obtained, that it was in the terms of an activity very much associated with Sydney, surf-life-saving.