Definition: 1. Worthy of respect. 2. Deserving of esteem and respect. 3. Large in amount or extent or degree.
Use 'respectable' in a sentence:
1. The caf é was popular with locals, and not with the more respectable locals at that.
2. These respectable teachers and lovable children also remind me of a Chinese education film Not One Less.
3. I have to prove myself as a respectable, balanced, person.
4. I'm told this street is respectable.
5. He was now a teacher and a respectable member of the community.
6. At last I have something respectable to wear!
7. He got into trouble for seducing the daughter of a respectable tradesman.
8. Examples Frontline workers risk their own health to save people. I think that ’ s incredibly respectable.
9. They appear respectable in such clothes.
10. He is a respectable man and is full of resource.
11. He put on the only respectable hat he had.
12. The truth is always respectable.
13. He comes from a respectable family.
14. It was a highly respectable and what was called an 'old-fashioned' hotel situated not far from Piccadilly.
15. It was an eminently respectable boarding school.
16. Swedish journalists are also rather respectable.
17. He was a respectable priest, around 40 years old.
18. This is a black-tie event. So, remember to wear something respectable.
19. I insisted on the funeral being respectable.
20. He was a respectable headmaster.
21. I'm far more respectable now.
22. Their habitation was not merely respectable and commodious, but even dignified and imposing.
23. The teacher who offered to teach in the orphanage for free was very respectable.
24. The price they wanted for the car was a respectable amount.
25. There too, it is becoming respectable again.
26. I dare say it's because there's such a lot o' blacks there instead o' respectable white people.
27. She is a respectable woman.
28. According to his students, he is a hard-working and respectable teacher.
29. We manage very respectable artists.
30. This is what life should be like: you have to do something or feel something. Each of these two choices is respectable and cannot be taken lightly.
31. I got a respectable score in my test. I didn ’ t work very hard on this one so I ’ m quite happy.
32. Year by year a few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.
33. His family was eminently respectable.
34. As the name implies, budget husbands' economic power trails that of "diamond husbands"--intelligent, educated, rich, and well-mannered men from respectable families.
35. This is he whom I adopted and would make respectable!
36. A few of these slang terms prove so useful that they graduate into respectable society.
37. Film was not considered a respectable subject.
38. There's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
39. Huck, we can't let you into the gang if you ain't respectable, you know.
40. His father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay Office—a respectable position, but with little social status.
41. I must do my hair and make myself look respectable.
42. He is said to have been a man of respectable position.
43. He was adopted into a respectable family.
44. Go and make yourself look respectable.
45. For my part, I abominate all honorable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
46. It was the heart of a most respectable rich man, whose name is certain to be found in the Directory.
47. Dickens's mother supposedly came from a more respectable family.
48. Theirs is a respectable family.
49. An upright man is respectable.
50. He depicted the town's respectable families in an unflattering light.
51. I have to prove myself as a respectable, balanced person.
52. He came from a perfectly respectable middle-class family.
53. The former wild man of rock has reinvented himself as a respectable family man.
