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adjective

decent adj.

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language. "Before his decent steps."

Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.

Comely; shapely; well-formed. (Archaic) "A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn." "By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed."

Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. "A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs."

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Etymology of 'Decent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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