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Example sentences for "respectabilities"

Lexicographically close words:
resourceless; resources; respeck; respecks; respect; respectability; respectable; respectably; respecte; respected
  1. One great source of perplexity in the case, is the excessive urbanity of the imperfect respectabilities themselves.

  2. And very respectful indeed were even the most eminent of Lincoln, or Jefferson, respectabilities who sought him out there to ask favors of him.

  3. And, while some broad-minded respectabilities spoke of the affair as an outrage, none of them was disposed to think that any real wrong had been done.

  4. A plainer, duller man than Headley it would have been hard to find, even among the respectabilities of Remsen City.

  5. Respectabilities and shams have a fatal facility for living on the community anyhow, and there is no more reason in not doing these things on their account than there would be in burning a house down to get rid of cockroaches and rats.

  6. So long as we get most of the men of exceptional mental gifts in the community under the best conditions for their work, it scarcely matters if, for each one of them, we get four or five shams or mere respectabilities upon our hands.

  7. The relation of the village respectabilities to the county families, the relation of the county families to the great ducal magnate, are all given with curious precision and subtle discrimination.

  8. If this question were answered as Christ would answer it, there would be no smug respectabilities scoffing at the striker.

  9. Then you have the respectabilities also suddenly developing signs of demagogism, socialism and anarchy.

  10. One of the mildest suggestions made by these respectabilities is that the Government should seize the coal mines and work them for the benefit of the people, setting aside the preposterous claims of the Coal Trust.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "respectabilities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.