decent
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Maybe some people would commute a decent distance so as to not be responsible for cooking a meal.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
"You could get a decent role, earn money and not do the usual duties," he recalled his superiors saying.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
We may have been cranky, but we were also decent people .
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Unfortunately, what would have been a decent score was all undone by not one but two penalties for being out of position on the grid and costing Cadillac their first point.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
And say fifty percent of those possible responses were kind, decent ones, like, “That’s okay, Ida. No problem.”
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
Vocabulary lists containing decent
"The Landlady" by Roald Dahl
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