"respectable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

respectable adjetivo

respectable + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 80

respectable woman • respectable people • respectable man • respectable family • respectable place • ...

verbo + respectable

Kolokacji: 4

look respectable • become respectable • consider respectable • sound respectable

Kolokacji: 1

Grup znaczeniowych: 1

(1) look, become, consider, sound

Kolokacji: 4

1. look respectable = wyglądaj przyzwoity look respectable

2. become respectable = stój się przyzwoity become respectable

3. consider respectable = uważaj za przyzwoity consider respectable

4. sound respectable = dźwięk przyzwoity sound respectable

It was later backronymed to "Message Parsing Interpreter" to keep the acronym, yet sound more respectable.
This sounded respectable, and many punters failed to make the link.
They initially described their prints as woodcuts however, which sounded more respectable.
'That doesn't sound very respectable to me.'
It sounded so respectable and unfishy.
He had picked up the word in his theological reading and thought it sounded more respectable than hell.
At first they described their prints as woodcuts, which sounded more respectable.
In the Victorian era, matrimonial ads strove to sound respectable and put a premium on privacy.
Orwell said that political prose was formed "to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind".
When you put it like that, Trent almost sounded respectable.

adverbio + respectable

Kolokacji: 13

most respectable • perfectly respectable • highly respectable • fairly respectable • eminently respectable • ...

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