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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prystójnyj",
"sense": "decent; satisfactory",
"word": "присто́йний"
}
],
"word": "respectable"
}
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"ref": "1872, Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, page 221",
"text": "They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew.",
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},
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"ref": "2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, page 38",
"text": "The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality.",
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"A person who is respectable."
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