"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
adverbio + respectable
Kolokacji: 13
most respectable • perfectly respectable • highly respectable • fairly respectable • eminently respectable • ...
(3) fairly, reasonably, pretty
Kolokacji: 3
(4) seemingly, outwardly
Kolokacji: 2
1. seemingly respectable = pozornie przyzwoity seemingly respectable
  • Often these novels followed a Cinderella pattern in which a virtuous orphan highlights the depravity of the seemingly respectable characters.
  • But the guests who arrive include some odd-looking people whose behavior is even odder, as well as some seemingly respectable people who also turn strange.
  • I find it disturbing that so many seemingly respectable organisations and individuals have associated themselves with UAF.
  • When the father's seemingly respectable co-worker makes lewd suggestions to the girls, they teasingly kiss in front of him.
  • The other day, a seemingly respectable tenant was arrested on child abuse charges, and another apartment was empty.
  • Suddenly you realized how close this seemingly respectable gentleman was to complete barbarism.
  • There was Captain Show, a seemingly respectable ex-army man, who plied his trade around the Sunningdale area of the moor.
  • In contrast, every time Democrats faced the last elected Republican governor, Nelson A. Rockefeller, no shortage of seemingly respectable candidates fought for the opportunity.
  • Her lusty comedy shows how a wily devil lures three seemingly respectable women into perdition.
  • He said the killers had been motivated by "anonymous but seemingly respectable people," whom he did not identify.
2. outwardly respectable = pozornie przyzwoity outwardly respectable

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