adverb
definition
In a decent manner.
example
You need to be decently attired to enter the restaurant.
definition
To a reasonable or acceptable degree.
example
a decently high salary
Examples of decently in a Sentence
We have an excellent priest, he conducts the service decently and with dignity, and the deacon is the same.
The only brother who'd accepted him and treated him half decently was gone?
On the other hand, it was during the early and middle part of his career impossible, and during the later part very difficult, for a dramatist to live decently by his pieces.
A code of instructions for the guidance of church courts when engaged in cases of discipline is in general use, and bears witness to the extreme care taken not only to have things done decently and in order, but also to prevent hasty, impulsive and illogical procedure in the investigation of charges of heresy or immorality.
Truculent pamphieteers like Simon Fish, who wrote Beggars Supplication, were already demanding that these sturdy boobies should be set abroad into the world, to get wives of their own, and earn their living by the sweat of their brows, according to the commandment of God; so might the king be better obeyed, matrimony be better kept, the gospel better preached, and none should rob the poor of his alms. It must be added that monastic scandals were not rare; though the majority of the houses were decently ordered, yet the unexceptionable testimony of archiepiscopal and episcopal visitations shows that in the years just before the Reformation there was a certain number of them where chastity of life and honesty of administration were equally unknown.
The myriads who built the pyramids to be the tombs of the Pharaohs were fed on garlic, and it may be were not decently buried themselves.
What?" he added with renewed irritation, "I beg you to dress your men decently."
Glancing indolently and indifferently at all the prisoners, he ordered the officer in charge to have them decently dressed and tidied up before taking them to the marshal.
Beginners can find decently constructed swords for about $200 to $300.
If there's one good thing about the graphics, the atmosphere of war is captured decently.
Except in one or two localities (on the north-east and west), the women are invariably decently clothed.
Anyone who knowingly sells a knockoff with a decently created designer label, even if they tell the buyer it is fake, is committing a crime.