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Decent   /dˈisənt/   Listen
Decent

adjective
1.
Socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous.  Synonym: nice.  "A nice girl"
2.
According with custom or propriety.  Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly.  "Comely behavior" , "It is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money" , "A decent burial" , "Seemly behavior"
3.
Conforming to conventions of sexual behavior.
4.
Sufficient for the purpose.  Synonyms: adequate, enough.  "The food was adequate" , "A decent wage" , "Enough food" , "Food enough"
5.
Decently clothed.
6.
Observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress.  "Though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards"
adverb
1.
In the right manner.  Synonyms: decently, in good order, properly, right, the right way.  "Can't you carry me decent?"





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"Decent" Quotes from Famous Books



... says Lord Wychester. 'You're too fat for decent company. My friend the Dook,' says he, 'may be partial to fat ladies and ten-cent freaks; but my taste runs to ...
— The Mother • Norman Duncan
... unfair. Ban," said Betty in her most seductive tones, "do call him down. Make him write something decent about ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... artistic expression, and began to hew and carve rough but spirited forms out of the Pisan and Carrara stones. The animals which they sculptured were, as Ruskin has said, "all alive: hungry and fierce, wild, with a life-like spring." The Byzantine work was quiescent: the designs formal, decent, and monumental. But the Lombards threw into their work their own restless energy, and some of their cruelty and relentlessness. Queen Theodolinda, in her palace at Monza, encouraged the arts; it ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... for the honor I had conferred on her. But as time went on I began to hunger for the sight of a real lady standing before me in a street-car. All I was staying in that land of bilk and money for was because I couldn't get away, and I thought it no more than decent to stay and ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... passed, this godly and decent order of the ancient Fathers hath been so altered, broken, and neglected, by planting in uncertain Stories, and Legends, with multitude of Responds, Verses, vain Repetitions, Commemorations, and Synodals; that commonly when ...
— The Book of Common Prayer - and The Scottish Liturgy • Church of England


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