Sentence examples for was not respectable from inspiring English sources
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.
Nicholson thinks that a contempt for money was an imperative for an artist, which showed a disdain for bourgeois convention: "This was an affront to an entire way of life... it was not nice, it was not respectable, it was dangerously improvident".
Of course, what I was writing was not "respectable," not even slightly, and so when people asked me what I did for a living I told them I was a science-fiction writer.
Just as the campaign for gay marriage is sometimes more about respectability than equality, Milk's real life wasn't respectable enough for this hagiography.
I suppose it wasn't respectable to think about it.
This wasn't respectable and there was nothing I could do to make it respectable".
"One hundred years ago it wasn't respectable to put a lot of colloquial language and slang words into print," Mr. Weiner said.
Medieval, which King describes as the "entry level of reds", was inspired by beautifying techniques from the Middle Ages when it wasn't respectable for women to paint their lips.
"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.
You know, I'm not respectable.
