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decent Definition In English

0 socially acceptable or good:
- You can come in now, I'm decent.
- Are you decent yet?
- After the recent scandal, the priest is expected to do the decent thing and resign from his position.
- It made quite a decent-sized (= large) hole.
- It was very decent (= kind) of you to help.
- I thought he was a decent person.
- Everyone should be entitled to a decent wage/standard of living.
1 acceptable, satisfactory, or reasonable:
- When the players were showered and decent, the reporters were allowed in.
- They’re just decent, ordinary people.
- It costs $100 to buy a decent sleeping bag.
- We get good benefits, and the pay is decent.

There were twelve farmers of fifty acres or more in 1754, while fifty-two others had decent smallholdings or small farms.
Too often one feels that it is wiser to concentrate on the creations alone and to leave the creator shrouded in decent obscurity.
A humanistic, decent flag hides the bullying of those who know or have the illusion of being the strongest.
The images of ' others ' were essential elements when people processed their views of themselves as decent persons.
The reader is neither submitted to information overload nor deprived of a decent factual diet.
Nowhere, it was suggested, could decent, modern buildings be found.
Certainly, they had a right to a decent life and a fair share in the outcome of agricultural production.
I wish there were some decent concerts around here.