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decentlyadverb
in a decent manner
"they don't know how to dress decently"
properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right wayadverb
in the right manner
"please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

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decentlyadverb
In a decent manner; .

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Decentlyadverb
In a proper manner; with suitable behaviour; without meanness or ostentation.
Etymology: from decent.
They could not decently refuse assistance to a person, who had punished those who had insulted their relation. William Broome.
2. Without immodesty.
Past hope of safety, ’twas his latest care,
Like falling Cæsar, decently to die. John Dryden, Ann. Mirab.

He performs what friendship, justice, truth require;
What could he more, but decently retire? Jonathan Swift.

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decently
Decently is an adverb that means in a manner or way that is considered respectable, appropriate, acceptable, modest, or of a satisfactory standard. It can refer to conforming to social conventions or standards of morality, propriety or good taste. This term can also mean fairly, adequately or to a reasonably satisfactory extent.

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The numerical value of Decently in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Decently in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Decently in a Sentence

Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy:
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Svetlana Gannushkina:
The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone.
Don Marquis:
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
D. H. Lawrence:
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present
Nasir El-Rufai:
We are waiting for the person who will come and intervene. They will go back in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country, we have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

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^ Princeton's WordNet
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^ Wiktionary
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^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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^ Usage in printed sources
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باحتشامArabic
decentmentCatalan, Valencian
ευπρεπώςGreek
bienSpanish
décemmentFrench
בהגינותHebrew
приличноRussian
пристойноUkrainian
đoan trangVietnamese

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