Synonyms

1. honorable
2. good
3. estimable

Sentence Examples

1. Elton is a very good sort of man, and a very respectable vicar of Highbury, but not at all likely to make an imprudent match.
2. He had a comfortable home for her, and Emma imagined a very sufficient income for though the vicarage of Highbury was not large, he was known to have some independent property and she thought very highly of him as a good-humoured, well-meaning, respectable young man, without any deficiency of useful understanding or knowledge of the world.
3. He believed the look made him more respectable in the eyes of superiors and perps alike.
4. Weston was a native of Highbury, and born of a respectable family, which for the last two or three generations had been rising into gentility and property.
5. She is the natural daughter of nobody knows whom, with probably no settled provision at all, and certainly no respectable relations.
6. Remember, sinner that thou art, the master is the more esteemed the more respectable and well-bred his servants are and that one of the greatest advantages that princes have over other men is that they have servants as good as themselves to wait on them.
7. the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
8. The Times, Standard, Morning Post, and Daily News, and twenty other highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr.
9. Let her marry Robert Martin, and she is safe, respectable, and happy for ever but if you encourage her to expect to marry greatly, and teach her to be satisfied with nothing less than a man of consequence and large fortune, she may be a parlour-boarder at Mrs.
10. Whatever he was, it was better than this villain of a woman who pretended to be respectable and high class.