"respectable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From his voice and the way he carried on, I expected someone cool and polished, slickly governmental, with a respectable suit and regulation haircut.
- He would go to his evening reading in his most respectable suit and brazen it out.
- George felt carefully at the well-worn, respectable black suit, the lank, dun-coloured hair, the hand-knitted pullover, the laces and sole of the one remaining shoe.
- He toned down his hillbilly twang and "replaced his yellow boots and loud checks with a respectable suit, tie and glasses".
- What we would deem as light opening bids were fine as long as you had a respectable suit.
- No, the character played by the jovial Ms. Monk, who has trouble with a cabdriver, too, looks entirely respectable in her red pashmina and stylish black suit.
- Felix, being older, prevailed, however, and they had worn respectable suits with ties, though the doming was not new.
- His eye fell on Elizabeth's clothes, which, though a respectable suit of black, and her very best, were decidedly old-fashioned even to Casterbridge eyes.
- To her relief he wore a rather shabby but quite respectable suit, with legs of equal length.
- In such circumstances, an overcall in a respectable four-card suit is nowadays considered acceptable, even if vulnerable.
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