Decent

Definition

decent /'di:snt/ adj ၁။ (က) သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္ေသာ။ လက္ခံႏိုင္ေလာက္ေသာ။ We must provide decent housing for the poor. ❍ The hospital has no decent equipment. ❍ He's done the decent thing and resigned. ❍ earn a decent wage/living. (ခ) သင့္ေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ ရည္မြန္ေသာ။ That was quite a decent lunch. ❍ They're a decent firm to work for (ie They treat their employees well). ❍ He's a thoroughly decent (ie honourable) man. ၂။ သိကၡာရိွေသာ။ သင့္ေတာ္ေသာ။ That dress isn't decent. ❍ ( infml ) Are you decent? (ie Are you properly dressed?) ❍ She ought to have waited for a decent interval before marrying again. Compare INDECENT ❏ decently adv သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္စြာ။ ေကာင္းေကာင္း မြန္မြန္။ They're paid fairly decently. ❍ decently dressed.

Examples

1. Are there any decent restaurants around here?
2. Barcelona have a decent chance of winning the game.
3. A decent caring man
4. [it is decent of someone to do something] : It was decent of David to offer to pay.
5. [be decent about something] : When I told her the truth
6. she was quite decent about it.
7. It’s not decent to get married again so soon after your husband has died.
8. [do the decent thing] : After such rudeness
9. the chairman should do the decent thing and apologize publicly.
10. Don’t look – I’m not decent yet!