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decently /ˈdiːsntli /adverb1In a way that conforms with generally accepted standards of respectable or moral behaviour: parents can teach their children how to behave decently customers were treated decently...- I wish I'd lived more quietly and decently.
- We've acted honorably, decently.
- I guess that's his standard line - if we behave decently, so will they.
1.1To a fair and appropriate degree; fittingly: they would like to be decently paid for the work they do a decently priced restaurant...- If they tipped decently, they probably were not gunning for you.
- At lunchtime, all the 25 tapas come in at a ridiculously cheap 1.50, and in the evening remain decently priced at 3.50.
- We were, therefore, led to believe that MPs were decently paid.
1.2In a manner that is not likely to shock or embarrass others: she must dress decently and not flash too much flesh...- I have to pay bus fares to work and be decently dressed.
- He also adjusted her top so that she was more decently covered.
- Their bodies, thinned by rigorous fasting and scarred by the disciplines of self-mortification, were decently concealed by long dark robes.
2To an acceptable or comfortable standard; satisfactorily: the chances of getting enough cash to live decently are poor the interior is decently furnished...- There are also some well-chosen illustrations, very decently reproduced on art paper.
- What we do have is a decently paced script that builds the tension small step by small step.
- The dancers, although decently trained, lack uniformly good bodies and fire.
2.1Fairly well: he batted decently but not spectacularly the thriller was decently received by reviewers...- We expect it to perform the task of driving down the road decently well.
- Sharpness, color saturation, and other video components are otherwise decently done.
- Singers worked on their projection and enunciation so that the primitive recording technology would render their voices at least halfway decently.
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