semirespectable

They turned dowdy Arco Arena into a semirespectable place and built a beautiful practice facility next door.

So poor Kidd must be relegated to the dull ranks of simply respectable people, or semirespectable people at best.

Joe Morelli, the scourge of Trenton High, biker, babe magnet, barroom brawler, now a semirespectable property owner.

It began with her semirespectable first book, "High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton," which was Coulter on training wheels.

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.

It took him to a cookshop that stood on the very border of his neighborhood, halfway between the semirespectable district of entertainers, artists, musicians (not Bards, of course), Peddlers, and decorative craftsmen and their 'prentices, and his own less respectable part of town.