disrespectability

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ respectability

Noun[edit]

disrespectability (uncountable)

  1. Lack of respectability.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      Her taste for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disrespectability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)