Definition of Decent

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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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Decent Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.
Larry David

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.
Drew Barrymore

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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