网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 example_english_decent-person
释义

decent person

collocation in English

meanings of decentand person


These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with person.
decent
adjective
uk /ˈdiː.sənt/ us /ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
See more at decent
person
noun[C]
uk /ˈpɜː.sən/ us /ˈpɝː.sən/
a man, woman, ...
See more at person


Examples of decent person


These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Of course, like every other decentperson, he desires more than anything else to avoid warfare.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
In fact, of course, the strongest evidence which the criminal courts usually have is the oral evidence of an honest, decentperson.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He is a humane and fundamentally decentperson, and he is concerned with all aspects of his immense responsibility.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
No decentperson should tolerate the marginalisation and exclusion from society that section 28 promotes.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
In the face of this, can any honest, decentperson aver that there is no national housing shortage?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Cultural views of the good, decentperson seemed to be the main precept of older people as they processed their view of themselves as moderate drinkers.
No decentperson would expect not to have some increase in his rates for that.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Is he aware that conduct of this kind is so discreditable that it ought to be repudiated by every decentperson?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I think that every decentperson viewed those particular offences with horror.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
They would not be places which any decentperson would wish to use for the burial of the dead.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He is in despair, as any decentperson would be.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Will that be taken into account in an application or would that discriminate against the individual, who may be a perfectly decentperson?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Without exception, every one of them is an honourable and decentperson.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Any decentperson ought to support this cause.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The word of an honest, decentperson of integrity could not be taken.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
I agree with the sanctity of contracts, and every decentperson will.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
No one—at least, no decentperson—likes the idea of divorce.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Are not the quality, design and cut of the clothes of such a character that no decentperson would wear them?
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Such a view should be repugnant to any decentperson.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It was one which no decentperson could resist in co-operating with the proposed legislation, which he desired strongly upon other grounds.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition of decent
Go to the definition of person
See other collocations with person
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2025/2/2 20:47:40