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# decently

«decently» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a polite, fair and respectable way that people think…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Decently means in a polite, fair and respectable way that people think is right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m1)

2) Decently can mean well enough or fairly well: «decently paid». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m2)

3) Decently can mean wearing enough clothes, not showing too much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x1)
- She did decently in the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x2)
- The workers wanted to be decently paid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x3)
- Are you decently dressed? We have visitors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x4)
- He behaved decently after losing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/#x5)
- The town looked after its poor decently. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «decently» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decently/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.