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RESPECTABILITY

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Traducere în limba română

respectability substantiv

1. respectabilitate, onorabilitate;

to preserve a certain respectability of appearance a păstra o anumită decenţă.

2. persoană respectabilă / onorabilă;

the respectabilities of the town notabilităţile oraşului.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

How old he was himself, I could not guess—and that again went to his credit on the same score; for in the calmness of respectability he might have numbered fifty years as well as thirty.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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