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decent

[dee-suhnt] / ˈdi sənt /




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We may have been cranky, but we were also decent people .

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

"He's good. He's doing some great work. I genuinely think his batting is going to get some decent positives in the next little while. I feel like he's not too far away."

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Herzl found Rothschild paternalistic and overly timid, “a decent, good-natured, faint-hearted man, who utterly fails to understand the matter,” as he wrote in his diary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

Her stats are decent, but her attitude stinks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

“Yep. Boy. Noses gush, don’t they? Looks like your glasses didn’t do you any favors, either. You have a cut there from that nose pad thing. May get a decent shiner out of it too.”

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell




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