Crossword clues for decently
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decent \de"cent\ (d[=e]"sent), a. [L. decens, decentis, p. pr. of decere to be fitting or becoming; akin to decus glory, honor, ornament, Gr. dokei^n to seem good, to seem, think; cf. Skr. d[=a][,c] to grant, to give; and perh. akin to E. attire, tire: cf. F. d['e]cent. Cf. Decorate, Decorum, Deign.]
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Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
--Shak.Before his decent steps.
--Milton. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
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Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic]
A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
--Milton.By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed.
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Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs.
--Burke. -- De"cent*ly, adv. -- De"cent*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a decent manner; .
WordNet
adv. in a decent manner; "they don't know how to dress decently" [ant: indecently]
in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?" [syn: properly, decent, in good order, right, the right way] [ant: improperly]
Usage examples of "decently".
I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs Elysees is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up.
And so Giver-of-Life had sent the gan as his emissar- ies, to discipline the wayward People, to teach them to live decently and to cure the sick, to govern fairly, to teach them how to plant and harvest, and how to disci- pline those who failed to please Giver-of-Life.
We found her sitting up in bed, negligently but decently dressed, with a dimity corset tied with red ribbons.
At least when their caique had blown into the south cliff at Navarone it had been decently dark.
Army people insisted that Chesty Vrislakavaro was a good CO, that when things were going decently, he could be almost affable.
One does not come into this ward to talk, but to suffer, and Carre is bracing himself to suffer as decently as possible.
Take Sir Ugo back with you and as soon as Tamhas is dead and this Righ Sean FitzRobert decently coronated, send our young knight up to me in Lagore with the sad news, the glad news… and the Star of Munster.
Take Sir Ugo back with you, and as soon as Tamhas is dead and this Righ Sean FitzRobert decently coronated, send our young knight up to me in Lagore with the sad news, the glad news .
The next day Mirabel Cotton was kept in at recess and "gently but firmly" given to understand that when you were so unfortunate as to possess an uncle who persisted in walking about houses after he had been decently interred it was not in good taste to talk about that eccentric gentleman to your deskmate of tender years.
His Grace said immediately, but you gentlemen should have been allowed time to array yourself decently, indeed yes.
By the end of act two, the Kantian categorical imperative has taken hold, and the crew starts behaving decently again.
Huon de Domville was left to the care of Brother Edmund and his helpers, and his coffin bespoken from Martin Bellecote, the master carpenter in the town, for whether he was to find his burial here or elsewhere, he must be decently coffined for his journey to the grave, and with suitable grandeur.
The young man is coffined decently, his own priest takes him hence today to Upton, for burial among his people.
His elder brother was First Lord, and he was wondering how much confidential information he could decently pass on.
I saw Guy heading into more and bigger dirty work, and I couldn't decently go along with him.