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Definition of Decent
Decent
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.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.
Eminem

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Lily Tomlin

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken

No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
Angela Merkel

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug



Decent Translations
decent in Afrikaans is behoorlik
decent in Dutch is betamelijk, fatsoenlijk
decent in Italian is fecente, gentile
decent in Spanish is gentil, decente


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