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The phrase "are not respectable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals, actions, or behaviors that do not meet societal standards of respectability.
Example: "Their actions during the event were questionable, and many felt they are not respectable in the eyes of the community."
Alternatives: "lack respectability" or "are deemed unrespectable".
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Everyone knew that, and criminals, even successful ones, are not respectable.
One young woman, Ellie, says of her job as a lap dancer: "The men in there are respectable, they are in suits, they have bank accounts; the women are not respectable, they are naked, they have debts".
The basic theme is the underlying idea that a text segment expresses, such as "sex workers must reform" or "sex workers are not respectable".
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"About Leonarda," he went on, "I would simply quote what I think Gandhi said: 'When the law is not respectable, I don't respect the law.' We are all one people, the tsiganes east and west and south.
During the years before the Second World War, the chief thing about Winchell was that he was not respectable at a time when respectability was a cultural and moral essential.
This is not respectable.
You know, I'm not respectable.
He's not respectable enough for that title.
These days, for the most part, it is not respectable.
It's not respectable in scholarly circles anymore to make that argument".
"It's not respectable to be a bandit," Mr. Kharit said.
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