Respectability is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RESPECTABILITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being respectable
• the quality of being accepted as valid or important within a particular field
• the quality of being socially acceptable
• The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• worthy of respect; estimable

How to use RESPECTABILITY in a sentence

• Through the windows in front were seen the same bald and grizzly heads that had for so many years given respectability to the Vortex Company.
• James, Westminster, London, to attend his duties as member of Parliament and enjoy the society of men of the first respectability for rank, talents, and literature.
• In the closest connection with such views mercantile punctuality, honour, and respectability pervaded the whole of Roman life.
• The respectability of the candidates and the vigorous prosecution of the canvass carried the city by a considerable majority, and insured the election of Mr.
• That it has eminently augmented our resources and added to our strength and respectability as a power is admitted by all.
• Garrison Draper, a colored man of high respectability, and long a resident of Old Town, early determined on educating his only son for Africa.
• It is, however, equally plain that an alliance with a foreign fiddler was certain to shock British respectability.
• Meanwhile, numerous letters came from people of the first respectability in Maryland and Virginia, testifying to his good character.
• He was for many years employed by Joshua Humphreys, a ship-carpenter of great respectability in the District of Southwark.
• There was an air of peace and quiet respectability about the old house, a domestic odor of baking cake, a quietness and stability that somehow made his errand appear absurd.
• Jesus sought the humble and outcasts of all kinds, and the Pharisees saw in this an insult to their religion of respectability.
• And she could not know that from her visits the Doyle establishment was gaining a prestige totally new to it, an almost respectability.
• We strive to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment.
• If pecuniary means were not wanting, no new institution could possess character and respectability at once.
• But it necessarily loses something of its respectability, by the side of, and when associated with, slave labor.
• Every thing seemed to promise comfort and respectability.
• Persons, however, of great respectability had been called as witnesses, who had not seen the treatment of the Negros as he had now described it.
• It is better built than a house of the same size would be built now, and it has a certain old-fashioned respectability, but that is the end of its praises.
• It is earnestly hoped that instead of wasting away they will by their own efforts establish for themselves a condition of respectability and prosperity.
• That they are both friends of the hostess is a sufficient guarantee of their respectability.
• Those talents, with the possession of which I have been flattered, will be of little avail when unsupported by respectability of character.
• SHERWOOD HAYWOOD, a man of considerable respectability, a planter, and the cashier of a bank.
• Over the whole place, with its air of fallen respectability, there hung the depressing smell of mingled dust, stale cooking, and bad tobacco.
• She helped young men back into the path of respectability and wage-earning as well as young women.