Sufficiently clothed

Usage examples of decent.

Mothering girls without a decent pair of jeans to their names, she could not have married the Afrikaner doctor in Brits who was in love with her, and mothered children he would take to the segregated Dutch Reformed Church every Sunday.

After all, he seemed like a decent man, perhaps in his fifties, cleanly dressed in what I regarded as the Alaskan uniform: turtleneck, heavy wool shirt, jeans, and mukluks.

As soon as he could get a decent Albanian to replace him, Nicu was going to be a graveyard boy.

As soon as I can get a decent Albanian to replace you, you are going to be a graveyard boy.

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government.

Eoghar and ep Ardris and the rest could have joy, he thought in dark rage: they had made no decent request to go back to their kin, if that was where they were bound, and it was as likely they were deserting outright to hide in the hills.

Can it be you are not Avarians after all but creatures of the Enemy come to inhabit the bodies of decent people?

American savages, they might as well bring back some decent English sports like bearbaiting and cockfights.

But most found it to be the smell of progress, a decent, earthly aroma of beets turning themselves into gold.

Why should a decent and kindly writer like Ernest Bramah find the crushing of the proletariat a pleasant vision?

The crane was tall enough to provide them decent cover, but its bridgework was no sure protection from laser fire.

Even now the children were being shown around the Carinthian Municipal Abattoir and perhaps that would get them to give some decent performances.

His contributions to various organizations had caused an assortment of chairmen and chairladies and executive secretaries, upon news of his death, to have a deep and decent interest in the terms of his will, but except for a few modest bequests everything had gone to his widow.

And the apprentices were a decent bunch, until the comas swung in from space.

It certainly carried the kind of historic pedigree that would please a British-Canadian lord, it was widely held with no control blocks that would have demanded premium prices, and it was a well and conservatively managed enterprise, ideal for the Thomson habit of acquiring companies that turned decent profits without requiring day-to-day involvement.