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Example sentences for: respectability

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Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.
And, of course, it would try to use me politically--to provide a veneer of respectability to a regime that has lately developed the habit of putting inconvenient people in jail.
Though he has yet to visit Washington since his release from prison, he aspires to return to respectability in the city's eyes.
Jesse Helms, too, is now flirting with respectability.
Pecker might also have noted that the editorial integrity of the Weekly World News remains largely unmolested (though Chatterbox did point out, earlier, a bizarre feint in the direction of respectability in the Weekly World News' coverage of the imminent apocalypse).