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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

semirespectable en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + respectable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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: