Respectable in example sentence

I shock respectable sextons by the imperturbability I am able to assume before exciting inscriptions, and by my lack of enthusiasm for the local family history, while my ill-concealed anxiety to get outside wounds their feelings.

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"'Agnostic, '" retorted Aveling, "was simply 'atheist' writ respectable, and 'atheist' was simply 'agnostic' writ aggressive."

And then we have Mark Zuckerberg, who defies convention of respectable attire for businesspeople.

They are now, actually, respectable professors at Michigan State University, but I can assure you, back in the day, we were not a respectable team.

After this, respectable American educators all backed away, and they stayed away for decades.

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