Sentence examples for unrespectable from inspiring English sources

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Chappy, the thesaurus editor, in a preface to the 1986 New Dictionary of American Slang, wrote about the "special languages of subcultures," which have historically been responsible for giving us lively if "unrespectable" new terminology.

Whereas fashion was once considered unrespectable, today the prime minister's wife is an ambassador for London Fashion Week.

That, at least, was unrespectable: a crown of sandy spikes.

He represents the unrespectable id, the bold fellow who tramples across the landscape bellowing and belching, drunk on his own testosterone, entirely free.

Emin is exactly what many older conservatives loathe - a defiantly unrespectable woman who will never seem "middle class" however rich she becomes.

They seem to personify respectively the respectable and unrespectable poor, at a time when the government was making poverty itself unrespectable (though difficult to avoid in a place like North Lanarkshire).

The young Forster even wrote Housman a fan letter, and years later, after dining with him at his Cambridge college and hearing Housman say "with a twinkle" that he sometimes went to Paris to be with "unrespectable company," ventured up the staircase to Housman's rooms.