"respectable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She either had been "quality" - respectable, prosperous, upper class - or still was.
- The respectable middle class mocked him, but each successful jump made Patch a bigger popular hero.
- Further, this was a novel attitude to sexuality: it became compulsory for the "respectable" classes only in the 17th century.
- They were known amongst the respectable classes as the Ranters.
- It was founded "to provide shelter and care for unmarried girls of the comparatively respectable class".
- Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property".
- See what allowance vice finds in the respectable and well-conditioned class.
- Place believed that only since his youth in the 1780s had London's artisans begun to improve into a more "respectable" class.
- Solicitors are a very respectable class, and in the country often dine with the best families.
- There was, too, a constituency ready to be stirred by such scandals, in the lower middle class and the respectable working class.
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