social respectability

Examples (10)

• The family worked hard to maintain their social respectability in the small town.
• For many Victorian families, social respectability was more important than happiness.
• He married into a wealthy family to gain a certain level of social respectability.
• The scandal threatened to destroy the social respectability they had built over decades.
• She valued social respectability above all else, often hiding her true feelings.
• In that era, a steady job was the key to achieving social respectability.
• They moved to a better neighborhood in search of social respectability.
• The club provided its members with a sense of social respectability and belonging.
• His criminal past was a barrier to ever attaining true social respectability.
• Maintaining a veneer of social respectability was exhausting for the impoverished aristocrats.