He hired a donkey to carry his baggage, to give him respectability.

"It's also a way to give respectability to items that have not been given respect before."

But she sure does give the man major class and respectability.

Those words are an attempt to give him respectability and absolution.

The role barely exists but he gives it respectability and elan.

It was hoped that he would give the Society much needed respectability.

His success, in turn, has given respectability - and a booming market - to all the others.

But even she, in the end, married to give respectability to her child.

Old domestics give respectability to a house, and should be themselves respected.

He refuses to give respectability to politicians who breathe violence in and out.