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de·cent a.
1. Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
Before his decent steps. --Milton.
2. Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
3. Comely; shapely; well-formed. [Archaic]
A sable stole of cyprus lawn
Over thy decent shoulders drawn. --Milton.
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. --Pope.
4. Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
A decent retreat in the mutability of human affairs. --Burke.
-- De*cent*ly, adv. -- De*cent*ness, n.
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decently
adv 1: in a decent manner; "they don't know how to dress decently"
[ant: indecently]
2: in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't
you carry me decent?" [syn: properly, decent, in good
order, right, the right way] [ant: improperly]