Thesaurus: decent

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1. a. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
2. a. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
3. a. Comely; shapely; well-formed.
4. a. Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
5. adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
6. adj. in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
7. adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
8. adj. sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public
9. adj. observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress
10. adj. meeting requirements
11. adv. in the right manner; correctly; suitably
12. 1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language. Shak. Before his decent steps. Milton. 2. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest. 3. Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic] A sable stole of cyprus lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Milton. By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. Pope. 4. 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.