What is the meaning of DECENT. Phrases containing DECENT
See meanings and uses of DECENT!Slangs & AI meanings
Good guy is American slang for an honest, decent person.
Means "Great" or "Really Great!"; "That new song is way decent!"
Do the decent thing is slang for to act in a manner considered appropriate or suitable.
Are you fully dressed?
Good egg is slang for a decent person.
An adolecent male of anglo decent..Who acts out with African-American sterotypes. ie. listens to rap in his low rider so everyone for blocks can hear it. speaks fluent ebonics, wears overlarge gold jewelry..wears a ball cap on most occasions in the invertered position.almost always has a toothpick dangling between his teeth. a wanabee afro american., suburban US phenomenom. ..One or two still around. Obvious derivation from racial slur.
Derogatory term for a poor and unkempt person. Suggests the person receives education benefits. Pertains particularly to cheap school uniforms dished out to kids whose parents couldn't afford decent ones. Consequently it was vitally important to buy blazers etc which were sufficiently different to 'Edgie' uniforms.
Cute, good-looking, foxy. Peter Frampton is sooo decent!
Do the handsome is slang for to behave in a decent, appropriate, honourable manner.
Someone who's only means of subsistence is the money paid to them by the state to avoid hardship because they are unable or unwilling to work. The obvious trappings of poverty such as "clothes by Tesco", were a constant source of amusement to those children who were lucky enough to have slightly more affluent parents. Strange how they could almost always afford to smoke and drink but not buy decent food, clothes or shoes for their kids! The "Thatcher Years" were a depressing time for the British.
You left out DECENT. One of the most used words of the 70's. You also left out cool which means decent among other things.
An expression used to denote a reasonably attractive person
Very cool, something you are excited about. "The Kiss concert is going to be so Decent!" also shortened to "Deece."
Term used where ever a group of lads would congregate and only one had any cigarettes. As soon as this lad lit or "sparked up" his cigarette, the others would vie for a Dee-Bee meanng "Decent Butt" if you were unable to secure Dee Bee, you would then have to appeal for Dee-Dee-Bee and so on. It was also used to demonstrate your place in the hierarchy, if you ended with the lip-burning soogy last drag which was more often than not mainly filter, it was a sure sign that you were not the most popular or hardest member of the group.
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Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
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Decent; orderly.
adv.
Decently; becomingly.
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Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
v. t.
To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
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The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.
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Comely; shapely; well-formed.
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Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
superl.
In a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.
adv.
In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet.
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Observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.
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Decently; in order.
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Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
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Not decent; unfit to be seen or heard; offensive to modesty and delicacy; as, indecent language.
adv.
Honorably; becomingly; decently.
n.
Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency.
v. t.
To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.
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Comely or decent appearance.
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Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.
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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 discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
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