decentish

adj

decentish

adj

Etymology From decent + -ish.

1

Informal 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.”1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 12, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
  • Two hundred decentish, rather subdued-looking people were sitting packed on long wooden benches.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXIX, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

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