decent
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Read if you like: “Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet,” by Lawrence Wright; any of the vintage tub accounts of Instagram; Victoria Magazine.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024
Decent second in last season's National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham but was then pulled up in Irish Grand National.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024
Decent historical dramatizations should make us reflect on this design.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2024
"Decent work empowers workers to organize and to negotiate," he told reporters.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023
“Electricity. Decent lighting. It’s not climate-controlled, but it could be worse. At least I’m not in the desert like Oppenheimer.”
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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