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Translations respectability n (= estimable quality, of person) → Ehrbarkeit f; (of motives also) → Ehrenhaftigkeit f; (= decent quality: of life, district, club) → Anständigkeit f; (= socially approved quality, of person) → Angesehenheit f; (of businessman, hotel) → Seriosität f; (of clothes, behaviour) → Korrektheit f, → Anständigkeit f respectability [rɪsˌpɛktəˈbɪlɪtɪ] n → rispettabilità respectability [rɪsˌpɛktəˈbɪlɪtɪ] n → rispettabilità How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Revelations and scenes might bring upon him the wrath of the owner of the saloon, who insisted upon respectability of an advanced type. "I am wealth; I am respectability," the Fortune explained; "I am elegant houses, a yacht, and a clean shirt every day. --She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being in the world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends, and her children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them. |
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