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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

... Rovuma river, the frontier between German East Africa and Mozambique, and made a pretence of marching north. By the end of September the great German colony had been conquered save for the unhealthy south-eastern corner, where only the Mahenge plateau provided a decent habitation for ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... United States in the vicinity of forts where political prisoners are held will supply decent lodging and sustenance for such prisoners unless they shall prefer to provide in those respects for themselves, in which case they will be allowed to do so by the commanding ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

... a thoroughly disreputable place, for Jake has a decent enough Indian wife; but he happens also to have a cellar which has a hard name for illicit-whiskey supplies, though never once has the law, in its numerous and unannounced visits to the shanty, ever succeeded in discovering ...

— The Moccasin Maker • E. Pauline Johnson

... With pleasing mien, grave walk, and decent vest, Fraud rolled her eye-balls humbly in her head; And such benign and modest speech possest, She might a Gabriel seem who Ave said. Foul was she and deformed, in all the rest; But with a mantle long and widely ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... the suffering of all humanity," Ransom returned. "Do you think any movement is going to stop that—or all the lectures from now to doomsday? We are born to suffer—and to bear it, like decent people." ...

— The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) • Henry James

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