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Synonyms for respectable:


adj. good, honest

appropriate
creditable
decent
honorable
mediocre
modest
ordinary
proper
satisfactory
tolerable
upright
admirable
august
becoming
befitting
comely
conforming
correct
decorous
dignified
done
estimable
fair
moderate
nice
passable
presentable
redoubtable
redoubted
reputable
reputed
respected
seemly
sublime
suitable
venerable
virtuous
well-thought-of
worthy

adj. substantial, ample

decent
good
reasonable
sensible
sizable
tolerable
appreciable
considerable
fair
goodly
presentable
tidy

Examples of uses:

No respectable woman would be out alone in Whitechapel at that hour, so she was not respectable.
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This is respectable house, and I am respectable man!
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Says I come from respectable people, that he runs a respectable business and that his only son is a bum.
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From now on, this tour is gonna be conducted like a respectable tour. respectable?
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Oh, a perfectly respectable ad in a perfectly respectable magazine...
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
I struggled so hard to make him into a respectable puppet! respectable?
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The colliery is no place for you. Why not try for a respectable job? respectable?
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If she was a respectable woman, she would have a respectable job.
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No respectable person, certainly no respectable woman, can now be seen entering her house.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
respectable people do things the respectable way, with a contract and a signature, as is right and proper.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

Antonyms for respectable:

bad