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decentish

adj

Etymology

From decent + -ish.

  1. derived from *deḱ-✻
  2. derived from decēns
  3. borrowed from décent
  4. suffixed as decentish — “decent + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat decent

    Somewhat decent; all right, tolerable.

    • The stranger produced a match, and lighted a cigar, saying, as he did so, “Decentish kind o’ wench you’ve got round there, stranger.”
    • Two hundred decentish, rather subdued-looking people were sitting packed on long wooden benches.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA