semirespectable

adj

semirespectable

adj

Etymology From semi- + respectable.

1

Somewhat or partly respectable.

  • A few minutes later he bade the policeman adieu, and, with a slip of paper in his pocket bearing a certain address in a semirespectable quarter, he walked briskly toward the nearest taxi stand.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 46:

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