respectability

Respectability awaits even iconoclasts if they stick around long enough.

Somehow, a bold and eccentric encampment gave heart to progressives at all levels of respectability.

Or, to put this another way, the person who puts her hope in respectability is like the foolish man who built his house on sand.

Punk and hardcore were tools for having fun while resisting middle-class respectability.

He gave respectability to views totally alien to the democratic process.

Soon they will grow to bourgeois respectability, a party of "practical" politics and "sound" morality.

I need only specify Miss Ross and friend, name unknown—to assure you of the high respectability of the assemblage.

The members of this class have a large notion of the respectability of their individual pews and seats.

Before passing through the gate we expected to see a crowd bearing some outward semblance of respectability.

A cold tone of gentle-blooded, high-middle-class respectability prevails.