"respectable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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