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.