Semidecent
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Having a small amount of decency.
"They talked a sales tax and large armies and large navies, but these farmers and the 6,000,000 women on the farms, who are doing an awful lot of thinking and will vote accordingly, believe that when we won the war to end war, if we had a semidecent, honest Government, there was no need and there is no need for large armies and large navies."
- 2 Of reasonable but not excellent quality.
"You would have been proud of the vets, turning the Patton into a museum, and then into a semidecent fighting ship."
Example
More examples"They talked a sales tax and large armies and large navies, but these farmers and the 6,000,000 women on the farms, who are doing an awful lot of thinking and will vote accordingly, believe that when we won the war to end war, if we had a semidecent, honest Government, there was no need and there is no need for large armies and large navies."
Etymology
From semi- + decent.
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