Decent

Why don't you get yourself a decent house?

I'd like to live in a decent house.

It's very decent of you to help me.

Get yourself a decent suit.

You had better go there in decent clothes.

Please keep your language decent while my parents are here.

A skilled mechanic earns decent wages.

It is not decent to laugh at another's troubles.

He has not eaten a decent meal in a long time.

He is a very decent fellow.

Are you decent? May I come in?

He's a decent saxophonist, but probably not good enough to make a career of it.

A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.

And ‘blubbing’ . . . Blubbing went out with ‘decent’ and ‘ripping’. Mind you, not a bad new language to start up. 1920s schoolboy slang could be due for a revival.

I'm all for opening new stations (Transport Scotland is planning another at East Linton, about halfway between Drem and Dunbar), but they are useless without a decent service.

There are a decent number of references out there, if you can find them.

I had a cup of tea - the last decent cup of tea for many days; and in a room that most soothingly looked just as you would expect a lady’s drawing-room to look, we had a long quiet chat by the fireside.

And ſable ſtole of Cipres Lawn, Over thy decent ſhoulders drawn.