The phrase "a respectable end" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a conclusion or outcome that is honorable or worthy of respect, often in the context of a story, life, or project.
Example: "After years of hard work and dedication, he finally achieved a respectable end to his career, leaving behind a legacy of excellence."
Alternatives: "a dignified conclusion" or "an honorable outcome".
It used to be that a couple of cartons of premium ice cream made a perfectly respectable end to a summer soir?all on their own.
So when it teamed up with the local newspaper, the Eastwood Advertiser, to ask readers to vote for the name of a new pub, one might have expected a choice from the respectable end of his oeuvre – The Rainbow, perhaps, or, for a bit of added glamour, The Plumed Serpent.
But hey, we all figured, the guy at least did the right thing and immediately resigned... well, "immediately after the story was going to become public," but still, the way politicians measure these things, a fairly respectable ending to the story, right?
One of them was an illiterate, 60-year-old stableman (Mr George Roberts), while the other was the 33-year-old youngest son of a respectable East End Jewish family, a rising star of the London art scene.
But it is also because the respectable end of the business seems to lack what Yorkshire folk call "bottom".
The island has tried to turn regulation to its advantage, marketing itself as being at the "high-value", respectable end of the tax-haven spectrum.
Polyester, at the centre of this year's programme, is on the respectable end of what was typically on the menu in the dark off Pentonville Road in the 1980s.
With the stations goes 3m square feet (or about six Gherkins) of commercial development, spread across the capital and managed in partnership with property developers, which are mostly in the gridded style of rectangular windows and straight pillars and lintels currently favoured by the more respectable end of the business.
Though this respectable end of fanfiction has always been around in books like the brilliant Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, or Susan Hill's Rebecca prequel Mrs de Winter, the current literary trend seems to explore retreads of another author's story.
