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decent adjectiv

1. decent, cuviincios; modest. ruşinos.

2. (fam.) modest; tolerabil, pasabil, destul de bun.

3. bun, cumsecade, de treabă; simpatic.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It was a perfectly decent room, half parlour and half kitchen, but not at all a snug room.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As they passed through the hall, Lady Catherine opened the doors into the dining-parlour and drawing-room, and pronouncing them, after a short survey, to be decent looking rooms, walked on.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She was a fine woman, had had a decent education, was brought forward by some cousins, thrown by chance into Mr Elliot's company, and fell in love with him; and not a difficulty or a scruple was there on his side, with respect to her birth.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Poor Edward!—he has done for himself completely—shut himself out for ever from all decent society!—but, as I directly said to my mother, I am not in the least surprised at it; from his style of education, it was always to be expected.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I say alone—Leah is a nice girl to be sure, and John and his wife are very decent people; but then you see they are only servants, and one can't converse with them on terms of equality: one must keep them at due distance, for fear of losing one's authority.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

"Have you anything decent, Jo?"

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

A'most the moment as she lighted heer, all so desolate, she found (as she believed) a friend; a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle-work as she had been brought up to do, about finding plenty of it fur her, about a lodging fur the night, and making secret inquiration concerning of me and all at home, tomorrow.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I didn't want to go to the city. I wasn't worth a decent stroke of work but it was more than that—I didn't want to leave Gatsby. I missed that train, and then another, before I could get myself away.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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