disrespectability

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ respectability, disrespect +‎ -ability or disrespectable +‎ -ity.

Noun

disrespectability (uncountable)

1. Lack of respectability; state of being disrespectable.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Her taste for disrespectability grew more and more remarkable. She became a perfect Bohemian.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 131:

     But in that community, the curate's objections to the disrespectability of his garments was regarded as fastidious.

   • 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 January 2017:

     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.

References

• “disrespectability”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.