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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "decently" in a sentence

    decently example sentences

    decently


    1. It seems like ages before I can decently change the subject but, after an eternity, she runs down on the subject of Andy and his transgressions


    2. ’ I said, arranging the blanket the woman has left for me so that it covers me decently and praying that it will stay put


    3. The apartment itself comprises three decent sized bedrooms, a large lounge with balcony (with washing line arrangements), a dining room, decently appointed kitchen and bathroom – all very modern and sleek


    4. He found the address, it was a decently nice door on a corner between two others


    5. She knew little of the technical details and couldn’t really play an instrument, though she could sing decently


    6. don’t enjoy the benefits of behaving decently, either


    7. He couldn't have been much older than me, and the two of them looked like they had been eating decently


    8. As long as such presents, as long as the emoluments of justice, or what may be called the fees of court, constituted, in this manner, the whole ordinary revenue which the sovereign derived from his sovereignty, it could not well be expected, it could not even decently be proposed, that he should give them up altogether


    9. However, he took it with his usual good grace and stashed as much of the profits as he decently could


    10. Once there, they stayed as long as they could decently get away with

    11. I made sure to keep Mark the Roonek's considerable bulk between them and me whenever I decently could get away with it


    12. I may not have had a girlfriend in those years but even I could figure out what she wanted and ran away as soon as I decently could


    13. The room was decently furnished and clean


    14. "If the child was only dressed decently itself," she groaned in spirit


    15. "If poor Faith had only been decently dressed," lamented Miss Cornelia again, "it wouldn't have been quite that bad


    16. 10 And bury me decently and your mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineveh


    17. Clean-shaven and wearing dress trousers and shirt with a tie, his shoes were decently shined, his ankles hidden by dark knee-socks


    18. Grant it, I was getting paid decently for the cooking gig, but cooking at an Irish


    19. Talking about poverty, I never understood how these proud people managed to always look very decently


    20. Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently

    21. That might work, but it would not give her enough money to live decently or retire someday


    22. ing the Executive Assistant's chair before it had become decently cool, but on the


    23. A human who was decently dressed could get away with it much of the time


    24. You will be treated decently, like the rest of your comrades


    25. Composing the limbs as decently as I could, and averting my eyes from the pathetic, innocent looking sex, I wrapped it- him in an old blanket


    26. If there are any prisoners of war or forced laborers from other countries still in Japan, they are to be treated decently until they can be repatriated to their respective countries


    27. Maybe if fiction actually treated truth decently and paid it some attention, it wouldn’t have to get


    28. � He was calling to warn me to treat that woman in Northolt decently


    29. I expect that they be treated decently and with respect


    30. Anderson didn’t miss the ‘mister’ in the interrogator’s question, a good sign that he was going to be treated more decently than Nancy

    31. ‘’Hum, that would imply that we would give them some land space or space habitat volume, so that they could live decently


    32. ‘’Whatever happen, ladies, I promise you that you wil all be treated decently here


    33. They are making millions in that industry at the moment, so it’s not as if they couldn’t afford to treat you decently


    34. “We probed as much as we decently could without raising his suspicions over lunch, but turned up absolutely nothing


    35. "Yes, well, she questioned a few of the men and found they weren't clamoring to break down the doors to leave, that they were well-fed and housed decently


    36. stage, kissing him briefly and decently, only on the cheek


    37. Why, how do you suppose we could get all we need out of our hundred pounds a year--I translate our marks into your pounds for your greater convenience--if we had to give a servant more than eight of them and for our house more than fifteen? Papa and I do not like to be kept hungry in the matter of books, and we shall probably spend every penny of our income; but I know a number of families with children who live decently and have occasional coffee-parties and put by for their daughters' _trousseaux_ on the same sum


    38. In the middle of these decently arrayed rejoices, the candles on the tree lighting up every inch of him, stood Joey in a Norfolk jacket, gaiters, and green check tie


    39. What is the use, after all, of being so vocal? We have each given the other many hours of pleasure, and shall we not be grateful rather than tragic? Here we are, got at last to the point where we face the inevitable, and we may as well do it decently


    40. Never bothered you, has he, since you got rid of him? Played the game decently, eh? He was very much in love with you, poor devil--God, how much in love!" grinned George, as long-forgotten visions of Job, the hardest-headed man of money in Europe, abject with adoration following Fanny about at parties, never taking his eyes off her, flushing if she threw him half a look, trembling when she came near him, emerged again through the swamp of years

    41. "It would be a scandal not to be buried decently," she replied, manifestly surprised at my warmth, "and the neighbours respect her much more now that they know what nice clothes she had bought for her funeral


    42. Our existence, Robert, our decently happy existence in a decently happy home with properly cared-for children--"


    43. Why," fumed Tussie, "can't we live decently? Hasn't it struck you that we're very vulgar?"


    44. There will be a cage over their heads, so any foul balls will bounce back onto their own heads, so they have to throw it back to the pitchers and hit it again decently


    45. Perhaps because I resented Hassan, I found that noisy and merry evening unbearable and left with a lame excuse as soon as was decently possible


    46. She had adjusted to the shoes, and was able to perform decently, if not pretty damn well


    47. This chapter connects all of the distant enlightening points of truth throughout human history and explains the existence of these undead evil things as a constant condition which systematically hides and twists every attempt of Living Life to straighten itself out and live decently in happiness and health


    48. People all over Europe and Russia and America were rising up and refusing to be obedient oppressed slaves and demanding to be treated more decently, and demanding more rights


    49. The masses were beginning to wake up and were quickly becoming aware of themselves as human beings, as workers as women who deserved to be treated decently and have a say in their country’s govt


    50. else would wait till they were decently into their forties

































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    Synonyms for "decently"

    decent decently properly right honourably justly scrupulously conscientiously

    "decently" definitions

    in a decent manner


    in the right manner; correctly; suitably