Decent: alternatives and connections

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstru…

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Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstru…

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

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Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.

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The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discour…

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The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discour…

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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decoro…

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Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decoro…

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Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstru…

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Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstru…

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable prese…

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of Fit

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Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.

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In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence…

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In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

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In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.

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Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

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Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.

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