The term is also related to burglar, though this developed in the opposite direction in terms of social respectability.

Thereafter he lost his youthful rebelliousness and developed into a figure of social respectability.

The style combines certain fashionable tastes with the appearance of social respectability.

But the blessings of social respectability and conventional happiness proved too much and our marriage folded.

Women can have a good income, social respectability (if that's important) and children without being in a long-term relationship with a male.

If a man's animal side comes out, the woman dies, at least in terms of social respectability in 1941.

Deej had always known, deep down, that he didn't really belong in the puking mass of social respectability.

George has been living on the scraps of social and emotional respectability.

The code of social respectability confined upper class and bourgeois women to their homes.

Devdas failed to offer social respectability to the two women in his life.