Sentence examples for as less respectable from inspiring English sources

Merchants frequently colluded commercially and politically with officials, despite the fact that scholar-officials looked down on mercantile vocations as less respectable pursuits than farming or craftsmanship.

It still lags badly in the highly competitive race, and, accordingly is seen as less respectable.

"The ones that treat it as a job are more or less respectable.

This is complemented by less respectable amusements such as striptease, which, since the 1950s has become a fixture of certain East End pubs, particularly in the area of Shoreditch, despite being a target of local authority restraints.

After World War II, homophile organizations like the Daughters of Bilitis offered social outlets for middle-class, professional lesbians, many of whom preferred private spaces to convene, as they found the bar scene less respectable.

It was once far less respectable than now, beginning as all-female casts before moving to the capital's brothel district.

Less respectable, but more lucrative, was sitting as an artist's model for Montmartre painters such as Edouard Bisson, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet and Fernand Cormon, where she made important theatrical contacts.

Kenny Pasternak, boss of Knight Securities, which is the biggest market-maker on the Nasdaq, says his deals are done in seconds, as opposed to several minutes on the NYSE.However, there are other, less respectable factors at work.

Does that mean racism is less respectable, or less widespread?

But some of the others are less respectable.

Celebrity is widely understood to be more chimerical than fame, less respectable and less trustworthy.