Respectable
Applied to persons in better circumstances than the speaker ; also to those belonging to the lower middle class.
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I'd say half a million in 40 minutes is respectable, no? All we want is your love, Sam, but we'll take a tiny cardboard cutout of you as a substitute if we must. Show us the freakout if there's a freakout?
Idk, maybe the best way to put it is that, for ppl like Klein, doing mainstream partisan politics is definitionally respectable. Therefore, anything anyone involved in mainstream politics says or does must be made to…
That is why I am determined to break the cycle with my nieces and nephews! We’re not glorifying none of that shit around here. My nephews will be respectable young men and my nieces will know that if somebody likes yo…
Easy to see, then, how this mindset can be weaponized by those willing to break liberal norms as a one-way ratchet to shift the Overton window and launder their beliefs as respectable ones.
No respectable public school would subject kids to this horror show.
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
Applied to persons in better circumstances than the speaker ; also to those belonging to the lower middle class.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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of respect; respectable.
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(UK, dated, pejorative) The lower classes in society.
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(UK, _, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Decorous; mannerly; respectful and worth of respect.
- erstwhile57%
(proscribed) Respected, honourable.
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(AAVE) stylish and respectable; high-class.