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decent English

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decent

If something is decent, it is good enough. He urged all workers to demand a living wage and decent working conditions. These British guys are pretty decent actors. If someone is decent, they are usually honest, kind, and fair. A decent society does not ignore poor people. I know the man very well. He is a totally decent, honorable guy. If someone is decent, they are wearing enough clothes to be seen by other people. Excuse me, may I come in? Are you decent?

decent

(= nice) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous from a decent family a nice girl (= properly, right) in the right manner please do your job properly! can't you carry me decent? (= becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly) according with custom or propriety her becoming modesty comely behavior it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money a decent burial seemly behavior conforming to conventions of sexual behavior speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd — George Santayana observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress a modest neckline in her dress though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards decently clothed are you decent? (= adequate, enough) sufficient for the purpose an adequate income the food was adequate a decent wage enough food food enough

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Simple sentences

Why don't you get yourself a decent house?
I'd like to live in a decent house.
Get yourself a decent suit.
You had better go there in decent clothes.
A skilled mechanic makes decent money.
You know you've really mastered a foreign language when you can write a decent poem in it.
I think it's time for me to buy a decent camera.
I think it's time for me to buy a decent car.
As soon as I can get a decent video camera, I'll start making videos to put online.
Tom got a decent grade on the test he took last week.
Since Tom couldn't make a decent living as a nightclub musician, he had to get a day job.
Tom has a decent salary.
Tom couldn't find a decent job in Boston, so he moved to Chicago.
Tom said there were no decent restaurants in his neighborhood.
If you want your workers to be happy, you need to pay them a decent wage.
Tom seems like a decent kid.
He was a good and decent man who had become ensnared in this dreadful affair through no fault of his own.
This is a decent town.

Movie subtitles

She stands a decent chance.
He's a good and decent man.
A little bit conspicuous, but I am a decent woman.
You should not assume that. She is a decent girl.
After all, you do at least get decent food out there.
Why does he go messing around an old ruined windmill when he has a decent house, a bath, good food and drink, and a darned pretty girl to come back to?
I'm sure you're quite willing to be decent about this.
One j ust can't wear those and be decent.
When it's put to him if he's any decent feeling.
There's such a thing as decent observance, you know.
I want it on the table! I'm a decent citizen.
My people are decent circus folks.
Did you ever see a stenographer with a decent frock on?
You've been very decent to me.
I've turned decent, Sergeant.
We can afford decent clothes now.
One can't wear those and be decent.
I don't want to crawl in and dirty up her goldfish bowl. Now listen, this woman's decent.
I was only trying to be decent.
Decent of you to dop in.
Let's have a decent fire.
Between a hooligan and a decent man, you take the hooligan!
It's high time every decent man and wife was in bed.
He's in his bed, where all decent folk should be at this time of night.
ONE DECENT SCORE WAS THE LEAST YOU COULD GIVE ME, ALL I'VE DONE FOR YOU.
Are you decent?
I used to think the country was clean, that men out here were decent.
I'm only doing what any decent guy in the same spot would do.
And also, Lord, if you're a decent chap, please fix it so my mother forgets me tomorrow.
You thought I could give you a home, and I thought you were decent.
Stay away from decent people's homes.
I want you to lead a decent life again.
I've lost my only link to a decent life.

News and current affairs

To anyone with decent eyesight, it was clear that the rosy budget projections of two years ago were nonsense.
For Chinese policy makers, today's market pressures are not high enough to force them to take action, as China still enjoys a decent surplus in its balance of payments, both on current account and capital account.
If the world is to have a decent economic recovery, an upturn will depend on America getting off its back and continuing to fulfill its role as global importer of last resort.
Vajpayee, for his part, has hinted that if Pakistan wants a decent deal, it ought to make one with him, as he might be the last Indian leader for a long time who is willing to compromise even a little on the issue.
That would explain why the Party has crushed them - and why any decent participant in this summer's Olympics should demand their immediate release.
If a decent credit culture can be created, people can have access to tomorrow's income today.
Yet many societies around the world do not meet the challenge of ensuring basic health and a decent education for each generation of children.
Some are simply too poor to provide decent schools.
A poor kid is unlikely to break free of his or her parents' poverty without strong and effective government programs that support high-quality education, health care, and decent nutrition.
By any estimate, with a decent safety net for workers who lose their jobs, the benefits of deregulation far exceed the costs and the pain they cause.
Indeed, the CAP is ensuring neither sustainable agriculture nor decent incomes for all farmers.
In what could have been a landmark victory that would open the doors of opportunity for Europe's Roma, the Strasbourg Court instead chose to keep Roma locked out of a decent education.
A decent pan-European economic recovery, and successful gradual fiscal consolidation, would allow the distressed sovereign bonds to rise in value over time.
Such a large change is not easy to achieve, but if girls can stay in school longer and have decent job opportunities available to them after they graduate, they are likely to marry and bear children later.
Instead, political leaders must use these windfalls to invest in innovation, promote sustainable businesses, and encourage new patterns of decent, long-lasting employment.
Indeed, the most famous free-speech cases - the ones that are supposed to showcase America's strength and moral power - involve the protection of speech that most decent people hate.
Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.
Of course, people with a decent tertiary education are also important for a country's economy, and here the loss of some European countries is substantial.
Income distribution has skewed in favor of the rich for too long, and the government has failed to provide decent public goods.
Today, however, China has decent infrastructure, impressive buildings, and an excessive industrial base.
Economic growth without social justice merely prolongs the denial of decent living conditions to the majority of Africa's people for the benefit of a tiny rich minority.
Or they come from countries in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia and have fallen victim to human trafficking, lured by decent job offers or simply sold by their parents.
Why is the challenge of education unmet in so many countries? Some are simply too poor to provide decent schools.
He is clever, decent, and strong.

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