Applied to persons in better circumstances than the speaker ; also to those belonging to the lower middle class.
"No respectable public school would subject kids to this horror show."
"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 fit the mold of respectability."
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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