respectable

Etymology

respect + -able

adj

1. Deserving respect.
   His accomplishments, morals, loyalty, and stature make him a respectable person.
2. Decent; satisfactory.
   Turn up to the interview wearing something respectable.  She plays a respectable game of chess.  He got a respectable B+ on his last exam.
3. Moderately well-to-do.

noun

1. A person who is respectable.
   They forced their way into the meetings called by the respectables; and the respectables disappeared. It was of their own respectable good pleasure that they withdrew. 1872, Thomas Cooper, The Life of Thomas Cooper, page 221
   The “respectables”, then, impute to themselves an absence of such character blemishes, or stated in more positive terms, an allegiance to American mainstream morality. 2014, Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz, Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, page 38