Respectable vs Respectabilize - What's the difference?
respectable | respectabilize |
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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To make respectable, or to give a false appearance of respectability.