Her grades were 'respectable' [='satisfactory'] but not great.
She makes a 'respectable' [='decent'] salary.
She comes from a very 'respectable' family.
(..) "I have powders.' "If you put up - dollar investment, we can make distributing.' They can't resist. I want to control it as a business, keep it respectable. I don't want it near schools, I don't want it sold to children. In my city we would keep the traffic to the coloured. They're animals, (..)1972 The Godfather