Read full poem →<* ful, to put some follies and vices out of countenance,
“ which cannot perhaps be so decently reproved, nor
“ so effectually exposed and corrected any other way.”
Dictionary Entry
In a decent manner.
In a Sentence
“You need to be decently attired to enter the restaurant.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. decentlydressed decentlyburied decentlyinterred decentlyclothed decentlydecently livedecently donedecently behave
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Poetry examples for “decently”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Should be, as others of the Church's are,
Decently cloak'd in the Imperial Tongue.
Have you no fears
Read full poem →As an intruder I trudged with careful innocence
To mask decently a quite meddlesome stare,
Passing the old house often on its eminence,
Read full poem →over against the inner temple gate, his holiness, after some
compliments and reluctancies, was decently toppled from all his
grandeur, into the impartial flames; the crafty devil leaving his
Read full poem →"I am a guide,
And that's why I can't decently refuse you."
Read full poem →So glide my life away! and so at last
My share of duties decently fulfill'd,
May some disease, not tardy to perform