adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a respectable/decent citizen (= good and honest )
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There are gangs on the streets who are terrorizing respectable citizens.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
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Arthur was, in fact, a highly respectable dresser.
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By the nineteenth century it was a highly respectable area lived in by bankers amongst others.
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And they already seem to have found some highly respectable regulars.
more
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Lebed is a more respectable type of nationalist than Zhirinovsky, but his belief in democracy is hazy.
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Meanwhile, the birth control movement was becoming more respectable .
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The authors conclude that the improving image of the game drew a wider and more respectable public, including more women.
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The voter knows that an affirmative answer would be considered more respectable than the truth.
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The barge-dwellers, creatures neither of firm land nor water, would have liked to be more respectable than they were.
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This inexpensive and popular format effectively challenged the older, more respectable Wall Street newspapers in the battle for readers.
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Arguments such as this are in principle more respectable than the argument based on sheer, naked incredulity.
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Singing was fun, but realistically, I knew I had to choose something more respectable .
most
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This was the most respectable strain of Unionist opposition to the coalition.
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For many years, most respectable doctors shunned the use of diet pills.
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He would go to his evening reading in his most respectable suit and brazen it out.
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This was insider trading at its most respectable .
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Yet in even the most respectable and credible sources, arithmetical mistakes can, and occasionally do, creep in.
perfectly
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That is a perfectly respectable point of view-as long as you have the courage to spell it out.
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It may be a debatable approach, but it is perfectly respectable and coherent.
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There are some perfectly respectable actors involved.
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For a philosophical Idealist, this is a perfectly respectable approach, whatever one thinks of it.
very
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And borrowing for house purchase has always been accepted as very respectable .
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Indeed, on a smaller scale, a portfolio of small caps could turn in a very respectable performance.
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We were a very respectable family and I was the second child.
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He is however, a very respectable young Gentleman, and deserves the honor which his Country has bestowed on him.
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I got the job on the magazine and then the advertising one then. Very respectable and good money.
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His nomenclature has a very respectable literary history.
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After all, suburbs have a very respectable antiquity.
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She smiled at the thought while she changed again into something very respectable and went out for provisions.
■ NOUN
citizen
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But more recent material has presented lesbians and gay men as nice respectable citizens - just like anyone else.
family
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We were a very respectable family and I was the second child.
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To confront violence in an otherwise respectable family reflects poorly on the mission and ideals of a church.
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Blonde, 21-year-old Elizabeth Dugan, who comes from a respectable family , went on trial yesterday for attempted murder.
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He came from a respectable family .
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Ashbee, born in 1834, became a successful City businessman, travel writer and respectable family man.
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It was dark, and silent, from the outside no different from the respectable family mansions that flanked it.
fear
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Even the poor old bicycle was dragged into the act, amidst a blizzard of respectable fears .
people
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It threw too many respectable people on to the Poor Law and caused the loss of many working days.
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How the quite respectable people who lived under these conditions managed to bring up families, I shall never know.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A "B" is a perfectly respectable grade.
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a respectable neighborhood
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Tony was always in trouble with the police when he was young, but now he's a respectable married man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this is a respectable girl, Harvey.
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Crucially, however, incorporation into the upper reaches of strategy-making is offered only to representatives of the respectable citizenry.
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It was very nearly respectable , reaching over half way down her thighs.
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Students were to be taken in as boarders, having been recommended by a respectable person who knew them or their families.