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de·cent·ly

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. decentlyadverb

    in a decent manner

    "they don't know how to dress decently"

  2. properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right wayadverb

    in the right manner

    "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

Wiktionary

  1. decentlyadverb

    In a decent manner; .

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Decentlyadverb

    In a proper manner; with suitable behaviour; without meanness or ostentation.

    Etymology: from decent.

    They could not decently refuse assistance to a person, who had punished those who had insulted their relation. William Broome.

    Past hope of safety, ’twas his latest care,
    Like falling Cæsar, decently to die. John Dryden, Ann. Mirab.

    He performs what friendship, justice, truth require;
    What could he more, but decently retire? Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. decently

    Decently is an adverb that means in a manner or way that is considered respectable, appropriate, acceptable, modest, or of a satisfactory standard. It can refer to conforming to social conventions or standards of morality, propriety or good taste. This term can also mean fairly, adequately or to a reasonably satisfactory extent.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of decently in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of decently in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of decently in a Sentence

  1. Nasir El-Rufai:

    We are waiting for the person who will come and intervene. They will go back in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country, we have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

  2. Aleister Crowley:

    Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

  3. Nasir El-Rufai:

    We have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

  4. Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy:

    The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

  5. Svetlana Gannushkina:

    The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone.

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