"respectable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- First, The Shadow would put pressure on Jordan's outwardly respectable partners at the Vanderpool Galleries.
- Although a widow and outwardly respectable, Mrs Turner was in fact an independent businesswoman who ran her own "houses of ill-repute" at Paternoster Row and Hammersmith, where couples could indulge themselves together in secrecy.
- One of those was a Vauxhall Cavalier belonging to Alexander Galbraith, an outwardly respectable, married man who worked for an offshore oil company in Aberdeen.
- There were those who said that Edinburgh was an invisible city, hiding its true feelings and intentions, its citizens outwardly respectable, its streets appearing frozen in time.
- He suspected Noyoki to be of extraordinarily high birth, and he had tried, since the beginning, to look as outwardly respectable as someone of high caste could.
- Molly's behavior and dress were outwardly respectable and modest and she was famous for her discretion, a quality that the men could well appreciate.
- Clutterbuck appears to have been an outwardly respectable member of the local community, a supporter of the Conservative Party and the Church of England.
- But perhaps more troubling to Colombia's democracy is how outwardly respectable citizens, fed up with the government's failure to control the guerrillas, have willingly financed the paramilitary group.
- A single actor plays "Robert O'Brien", an outwardly respectable elocution tutor based in a suburb of Melbourne.
- Large numbers of intelligent, outwardly respectable men and women are resorting to what experts call "ritual use" of the classroom.
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