decent
Example Sentences
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When you don’t have love, it can feel like a decent substitute.
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And yet we called decent behavior humane, and acted as though animals were the brutes!
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“They’ve now got a floor and it’s a very decent floor.”
Stocks did abysmally that decade, but they’re often a decent inflation hedge themselves.
Martínez, 37, settled with his wife and children in the Miami area, became a U.S. resident and started an insurance agency that has provided them a decent living.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.