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Example sentences for: respectable

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Each attempts to make libertarianism more respectable and popular.
The wicked numbers game is a racket no more, but a respectable, highly promoted Lotto, the hottest gambling enterprise ever conceived.
Though this by itself has no immediate effect, it makes it respectable, for the first time, for political leaders to discuss the subject, and thereby brings closer the day when the vast majority of crimes will no longer be committed, when billions of dollars will be freed to help the inner city instead of to ruin black people's lives, and when we will stop, as in Samuel Butler's Erewhon , imprisoning people for the crime of being sick.
You couldn't invent a more striking contrast of characters than exists between Camel's downtown urban punk and Marlboro's mythically respectable horseman.
As Plotz so ably demonstrates, that great line from the film Chinatown is absolutely on the mark: "Politicians, whores, and buildings--if they get old enough, they get respectable."