Respectability vs Reputation - What's the difference?
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The quality of being respectable.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability' out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of ' respectability :it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 19, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= The class of respectable people.
What somebody is known for.
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, year=1529
, author=John Frith
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, title=A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis,
As nouns the difference between respectability and reputation
is that respectability is the quality of being respectable while reputation is what somebody is known for.respectability
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Noun
(en-noun)England 1-0 Ukraine, passage=But once again Hodgson's men found a way to get the result they required and there is a real air of respectability about their campaign even though they had to survive a first-half siege from a Ukraine side desperate for the win they needed to progress.}}
reputation
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(wikipedia reputation)Noun
(en noun)citation, chapter= , isbn= , publisher=Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten] , location= , editor= , volume_plain= , page=117 , passage=And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation / or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people. }}