Sentence examples for is less respectable from inspiring English sources

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

The idea of watching two guys beat each other up is less respectable.

But some of the others are less respectable.

One club recruiter said some women turn up to interviews with their mothers in tow, which never would have happened when the job was less respectable.

The mukhannathun were less respectable, with a reputation for frivolity and loucheness, though they seem to have been broadly tolerated during the earliest years of Islam.

On Tuesday her impulse to be natural found its most focused expression in Carol Hall's "Doatsy Mae" from "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," whose title character is a waitress daydreaming about what her life might have been like had she dared to be less respectable.

Bob Guccione of Penthouse volunteered to publish it, but Kaczynski replied that, since Penthouse was less "respectable" than the other publications, he would in that case "reserve the right to plant one (and only one) bomb intended to kill, after our manuscript has been published".

To call Scott a token is to imply that he is less autonomous, and therefore less respectable, than his white Republican counterparts.

Trump's raw material has long been there, in other words Benghazi, voter fraud, and the perfidy of Clinton were the subjects of fervid nights on Fox News well before this election cycle but there is less deniability for allegedly respectable Republicans who might want the electoral benefits without the taint.

Hasmik Papian looks the part of Norma, but vocally she is less a commanding presence than a respectable singer at the limits of her abilities.

Hasmik Papian looks the part of Norma, and attempts a naturalistic presentation of one of the most difficult roles in the repertory, but vocally she is less a commanding presence than a respectable singer at the limits of her abilities.