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# decently

adverb

«decently» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Decently means in a polite, fair and respectable way that people think is right. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m1)
2. Decently can mean well enough or fairly well: «decently paid». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m2)
3. Decently can mean wearing enough clothes, not showing too much. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, «treat people decently» means fairly and kindly. In money matters, a job that pays decently pays enough to live on. In stories, a character is «decently dressed» for church or a visit. In The Wind in the Willows Badger insists that Toad behave decently.

### Examples

- Please treat everyone decently. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x1)
- She did decently in the test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x2)
- The workers wanted to be decently paid. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x3)
- Are you decently dressed? We have visitors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x4)
- He behaved decently after losing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x5)
- The town looked after its poor decently. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x6)
- Some say it was the fatigue that killed her, but whichever it was, Mrs. Connor was decently buried with her own people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x7)

### Note

From «decent» (pronounced DEE-sent). Do not confuse with «descent» (going down) or «dissent» (disagreement).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «decently» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«decently» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/decently.html) on Mova free.