Decent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECENT in dictionary:

ADVERB:
• in the right manner
ADJECTIVE:
• conforming to standards of propriety
• conforming with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour
• appropriate; fitting
• not likely to shock or embarrass others
• sufficiently clothed to see visitors
• of an acceptable standard; satisfactory
• good
• kind, obliging, or generous
• (of a person) polite and morally acceptable
• Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
• Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
• Comely; shapely; well-formed.
• Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
• socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
• according with custom or propriety
• conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
• sufficient for the purpose
• decently clothed
• observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• conforming to recognized standards of propriety

Words related to DECENT

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How to use DECENT in a sentence

• Seventy-one per cent of the heads of the families in our basic industries are unable to provide a decent living for their families without the assistance of the other members.
• Geissler agreed that might be a decent price enough for any one sorely in need of the money, but five-and-twenty thousand would be better.
• The effort which had enabled him to speak gave way, and he turned aside that he might weep in the decent reserve that became his station and years.
• Antony went straight to his room to change, and so did the two other decent men.
• For these crops he could always get a decent price.
• After he was dead, no one would go near him, or assist to give the body a decent burial.
• He promised to let me know of any decent skipper who might be sailing to Southampton or London if, when I had had a few days to think things over, my mind remained the same.
• I wish I had a shave, a bath, and some decent clothes.
• The captain, who seemed a decent fellow, cried like a child.
• It was not thought decent, that he, who had been a judge in his own court, should become a suitor in the court of another.
• He based his payments on a decent profit, without which he could not carry on.
• In his business a man must be decent, or he loses credit.
• Fortunately his aim was as bad as his taste was deplorable in coming at a time when decent folk were having a meal.
• The only decent thing he ever did was dying! She has been an awfully unhappy woman.
• The barber, I understand, is a worthy man, and has reared a decent family.
• My brother Solomon grew up, but could not get into a decent situation because he must not work on the Sabbath.
• Gilverthwaite, it was certainly his money that was my chief inducement in going on his business at a time when all decent folk should be in their beds.
• And he has begun by making me a decent allowance again as his son.
• You can stand on the platform, pull down the strip of wood, and get in quite a decent light from the other cell.
• And when I think of their grandmother! A decent woman was Mirren Somerville.
• Hide decent pepper, hide nothing clean, hide nothing and the prince is perfect.
• Young Waters was the only one lucky enough to kiss her, and there was more of strength in his conquest of her than any decent fellow could be proud of.
• To be expelled meant to deprive them of their chance of being well educated and of earning a decent living by-and-by.
• Arrayed in a decent black dress, with a decent black bonnet and a black woollen shawl, the old lady looked intensely respectable.

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