decent
She is trying to provide poor people with health care, education and decently paid jobs.
People are looking for a leader who treats people decently.
It is no use preaching to your children if you do not act decently yourself.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Suitable and acceptable
able
acceptability
acceptable
acceptably
accepted
convenience
conveniently
correctly
correctness
decent
do the decent thing
felicity
just what the doctor orderedidiom
legitimate
practical
quality
re-eligibility
re-eligible
relevance
relevant

Examples of decently

decently
But had she refused to dress ' decently ' for court, she would have been forced to do so.
One doesn't run to lawyers if he wants to stay in business because one must behave decently.
A moral theory of the decently encumbered self should be enough.
This created a new problem of decently rehousing the thousands of people at high densities on cramped sites.
Under these conditions of stationariness, the rebels have behaved unusually decently. 31.
In addition, poverty alleviation must be driven by the creation of stable and decently remunerated employment opportunities in both rural and urban areas.
For patterns, the equivalence classes are decently small, but forcing gives only a partial ordering which is difficult to investigate.
If men who have served the industry well are never to work again, it is right that they should be treated decently.
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