disrespectability
nounEtymology From dis- + respectability, disrespect + -ability or disrespectable + -ity.
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Lack of respectability; state of being disrespectable.
- Her taste for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- But in that community, the curate's objections to the disrespectability of his garments was regarded as fastidious.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 131:
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- 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.2015 October 6, Lola Okolosie, “Cookie in Empire is a badass and a models of feminist disrespectability”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2017: