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  1. 1. a. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Comely; shapely; well-formed. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person. Source: opted
  5. 5. adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion Source: wordnet
  7. 7. adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adj. sufficiently clothed to see visitors or appear in public Source: wordnet
  9. 9. adj. observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress Source: wordnet
  10. 10. adj. meeting requirements Source: wordnet
  11. 11. adv. in the right manner; correctly; suitably Source: wordnet
  12. 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. Source: webster

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