Kindly vs Respectable - What's the difference?
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Having a kind personality.
* Tennyson
(obsolete) Favourable; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.
* Alexander Pope
* Wordsworth
(obsolete) natural
* Book of Common Prayer
* Spenser
* L. Andrews
In a kind manner, out of kindness.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
in a favourable way.
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Please; (used to make a polite request).
(US) With kind acceptance; .
Deserving respect.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
Decent; satisfactory.
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Kindly is a related term of respectable.
As adjectives the difference between kindly and respectable
is that kindly is having a kind personality while respectable is deserving respect.As an adverb kindly
is in a kind manner, out of kindness.kindly
English
Adjective
(er)- A kindly old man sits on the park bench every afternoon feeding pigeons.
- The shade by which my life was crossed has made me kindly with my kind.
- In soft silence shed the kindly shower.
- should e'er a kindlier time ensue
- the kindly fruits of the earth
- an herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting
- Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the sons of men.
Adverb
(en adverb)- He kindly offered to take us to the station in his car.
- She was both beautiful and young to their eyes. Her hair was a rich red in color and fell in flowing ringlets over her shoulders. Her dress was pure white but her eyes were blue, and they looked kindly upon the little girl.
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- Kindly refrain from walking on the grass.
- Kindly move your car out of the front yard.
- I don't take kindly to threats.
- Aunt Daisy didn't take it kindly when we forgot her anniversary.