Meaning of disrespectability | Babel Free

Definitions

Lack of respectability; state of being disrespectable.

uncountable

Examples

“Her taste for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian.”

“But in that community, the curate's objections to the disrespectability of his garments was regarded as fastidious.”

“The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.”

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