The word 'respectability' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the quality of being respected by other people and accepted by society, or someone's attempt to be respectable. For example: He strove for respectability throughout his life, always doing the right thing and treating others with kindness.
Ellington was an avid supporter of racial progress, of African-American respect and respectability.
What's wrong with mid-table respectability if it offers more stability?
This will be Cahill's third and last World Cup, his swansong finally closing the book on the so-called "golden generation" that led Australia back to international respectability after 32 years in the wilderness and whose slow journey to retirement has been the central feature of the Socceroos selection drama over the past four years.
Crucially, the De la Renta brand, a favourite of first ladies and Hollywood stars, is redolent of two qualities Galliano sorely needs to recover: respectability and class.
"Lad culture" is a problematic term – it can attach a veneer of respectability to what's really "sexism with an alibi", and produce fatalistic "boys-will-be-boys" dismissals.
"Walking through history with our eyes wide open can transform our ideas of respectability and ability," Uma Asher writes.
Its leader, Nikos Michaloliakos, is in jail awaiting trial for association with a criminal gang after the murder of a left-wing anti-fascist rapper.Squatting on the borders of respectability is Jobbik, now the third biggest party in Hungary's parliament.
Make it happen again".In "Gladiator", Mr Scott reconciles the "bread and circuses" side of Roman epics with their aspirations to respectability.
"The image, or the caricature, of a movement of violent macho men has completely disappeared," she insists.Perfect perishersThe quest for respectability has been uneven.
HE WAS a badge of respectability for Silvio Berlusconi's idiosyncratic administration, and a guarantee for investors in both Italian securities and the euro.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.
