decent
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Read if you like: “Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and the Water-Closet,” by Lawrence Wright; any of the vintage tub accounts of Instagram; Victoria Magazine.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2024
The English Housing Survey found three-and-a-half million households in England lived in a home that failed to meet the Decent Homes Standard, and one million households lived with damp.
From BBC • Jul. 19, 2024
Decent people would denounce it, we’d create some brilliant columns and cartoons about it, win some Pulitzers, and millions of Americans would take to the streets to protest, for about a month or two.
From Salon • Nov. 15, 2023
"Decent work empowers workers to organize and to negotiate," he told reporters.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023
“Eighty-two degrees. Moderate humidity. Decent barometric pressure, which is good. Winds out of the east at only about six miles per hour. Quiet day,” I say.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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