semidecent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a small amount of decency.

   • The semidecent ones always get the initial guilty look, like a little boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar; then they get the embarrassed look (as they should); then they bow out gently and leave.
   • How in the hell did I ever think he was a semidecent guy? He was a douche and one hell of a good actor.
2. 2

   Of reasonable but not excellent quality.

   • You would have been proud of the vets, turning the Patton into a museum, and then into a semidecent fighting ship.
   • If you live with a decent (even a semidecent) system at your disposal and choose not to use it, the joke's on you.
   • Rylann struggled to pull at least one semidecent retort out of the pounding fog that was her brain . . . but came up dry as a bone.

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