Definition of "decent" []

• Characterized by conformity to recognized standards of propriety or morality. (adjective)
• Free from indelicacy; modest. (adjective)
• Meeting accepted standards; adequate: a decent salary. (adjective)
• Morally upright; respectable. (adjective)
• Kind or obliging: very decent of them to lend you money. (adjective)

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• "Old alligators -- one couldn't call you men, and it's enough to make decent men squirm that you should be at large and be called by the same name -- can act like you and yet be considered respectable, but this is to show you what _decent_ women think of your likes, and their spirits are with us in armies to-night in what we are doing."
• ""decent people" advisedly, for those who bring this kind of suit _are decent_, wishing to act honorably and kindly, and carrying out the always difficult severing of the marriage bond with as little pain as possible."
• "Astellas, which trades at below five times its earnings before interest, has bought back about 20% of its stock in the past seven years, Mr. de Lardemelle said, and has what he called a decent pipeline of drug development."