respectability

Converse of object

• lend: This would also lend further respectability to the grades.
• gain: These girls may not play instruments but they have worked hard, touring to gain respectability and a loyal fan base.
• achieve: New journals can take a long time to achieve respectability, let alone prominence.
• acquire: Consumer activism has acquired a formidable respectability in Britain.
• seek: The Saxons, seeking respectability, converted to Catholicism, with the help of the mission of St Augustine to England from 597 onwards.
• bring: New training courses are bringing greater respectability to a profession with a poor reputation.

Adjective modifier

• middle-class: But she is fatally torn between the dull virtue of middle-class respectability and the evil attractions of the beckoning city lights.
• bourgeois: The latter, as we have seen, sought to make the Irish nation a cradle for petty bourgeois Catholic respectability.
• academic: Did it not also take decades for its academic respectability to be recognized?
• apparent: Despite the apparent respectability of the West End halls, music hall was still associated with wild audiences and high living.
• scientific: Now many astrologers seem to have a hankering, a hunger even, for scientific respectability that never fails to amaze me.
• international: And adoption of the Euro has brought international respectability to match a booming economy.

Noun used with modifier

• class: Both drivers could be boosted by returning to Combe, where they will now expect spectacular outright results rather than class respectability.
• establishment: He can now be heard on Radio 2 and seems finally to have achieved establishment respectability by being awarded an MBE.

Preposition: in

• eye: Other families were battling with real hardship, yet maintaining an image of respectability in the eyes of their parish.
• society: They became ' self-appointed arbiters of taste ' , setting ' standards of propriety ' , upholding reputations of respectability in polite society.
• town: Tyas was chosen because according to Barnes, he " was nephew to an individual of great respectability in the town of Manchester " .

Preposition: of

• art: It was her wish that publication would bring to light the authentic beliefs of Witchcraft and reestablish the respectability of this ancient art.
• idea: Obviously it works and it has worked for centuries and millennia, but what is the epistemological respectability of this idea?