| The acquisition of land not only gave social respectability but also wealth. |
| Modern dress also looks anachronistic in a world where respectability is a prime virtue and cuckoldry a social stigma. |
| Anxieties regarding respectability were often concealed by seemingly trivial complaints over children, gardens or noise. |
| Mere culture, refinement, respectability, morality, is simply a painted coating of varnish on the outside. |
| Kildare were a dispirited bunch but it was to get much worse before a late rally put a little respectability on the final scoreline. |
| For a long time, the capital of Victoria seemed to be the seat of provincial respectability. |
