How To Use Decently In A Sentence

I have put a great deal of time, and no little money, into saving York City and it breaks my heart to see players who cannot, or will not, play decently get praise each week while youngsters, who are still learning the game, are pilloried.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
The large percentage of undocumented recent immigrants have little access to decently paying jobs.
The jury did not know he had convictions for kerb-crawling in 1994 and, the following year, for indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.
On Thursday Woods hit the ball decently and putted atrociously. Tiger Woods struggles again but makes the cut at Fry.com Open

Calcium inhibits fluoride but if you are low on vitamins and calcium, the neurological effect is greater than those decently fed.
The new servant was decently dressed.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
Intemperance in food will cause the rapid descent into degredation of one who has previously lived decently.
A flasher has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge.
Men also have to dress decently.
In the first incident a 34-year-old woman was indecently assaulted and in a separate attack a flasher exposed himself to workers in a local tanning studio, both on Monday night.
The man approached her and indecently exposed himself, before making a grab for her.
It's a belter of a voice in fact: not King's College Chapel material, maybe, but decently formed, in tune, and able to get the high notes without straining or cracking.
You need to be decently dressed to go for an interview.
The counselor has maneuvered her into a situation where she can no longer act sensibly and decently.
When she turned round, the man indecently exposed himself.
_Gradely_ (graithly) means willingly, meekly or decently; _clem_ means starve; _sithee_ is see you or look you; _clogs_ are shoes with wooden soles and leather uppers, and _dungarees_, garments of coarse cotton cloth rather like overalls. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays
The Brazilian's music is so uneven (partly because he was so prolific) that some instalments are likely to be more rewarding than others, and though it is decently performed, this is definitely one of the duds.
The LED taillamp assemblies are decently distinctive, but overall, the back of the car isn 't nearly as finished, as confident, as the front. The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals
They would have alimented the honest man decently among them for Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
All three works on this disc are idiomatically performed and decently, if rather drily, recorded.
We need to encourage more health professionals to come west, but only decently funded hospitals will make that happen.
Yesterday's Stock Exchange announcement from Manchester United holds out the prospect of a decently priced bid.
Our change in values is not driven by indifference to crude radio shows, but the need to work longer and harder to live decently, which is rich in most of the world. Archive 2004-03-01
Maybe it matters not a whit whether I strangle indecently my infinitives, or whether I split them decently with care.
Economists sometimes contend that it makes no difference whether officialdom is decently paid or underpaid and makes it up by taking bribes.
Families should be reasonably, decently nourished.
We'd all like to think that if you conduct yourself honorably and decently and fairly, you'll never come under attack.
Also, I could speak Spanish pretty decently and was looking for a place very different from Jenison, Michigan -- the lily-white suburb where I had grown up. Craig Regester: Why Choose Detroit?
The dancers, although decently trained, lack uniformly good bodies and fire.
Many of the tumblers and trapeze artists were fairly minimally - but decently - dressed.
We were, therefore, led to believe that MPs were decently paid.
Alright, so that was from the Chronicle, but even IMDB is rating it decently! I Want to Believe This Movie Won’t Suck « Skid Roche
It was possible to live in that country decently and comfortably if you weren't actively opposing the regime.
He took her to a consulting room and helped her off with her clothes, before indecently touching her.
The ballet, given three casts of principals, proved decently enough danced at a creditable second-tier level; the women, however, markedly outmatched the men.
We are only trying to ensure that students dress decently and modestly, in a way that befits our culture.
By a curious paradox, however, it often happens that the headache due to eye-strain is caused not by the grosser defects, such as interfere with vision so seriously as absolutely to demand the wearing of glasses to see decently, but from slighter and more irregular degrees and kinds of misshapenness in the eye, most of which fall under the well-known heading of astigmatism. Preventable Diseases
So I endured a trip to the supermarket best I could, my legs decently covered.
We must ensure that patients are fully clothed and decently clothed.
If they tipped decently, they probably were not gunning for you.
When you advise a woman to dally with men because they might, in exchange, arrange for that woman “to buy everything from electric blankets to hi-fi records wholesale,” then you have violated the signal code of people who were jolted from the middle class in the 1930s: their ardent desire to behave decently because, for a time in their lives, that behavior was all that separated them from the Helen Gurleys of the world. Sex and the Married Man
Idiopathy is almost indecently entertaining. The Times Literary Supplement
I have been told on good authority that in the town (lodgings, as opposed to a college) one can live quite decently on 16 or at most 20 crowns: also that sometimes three or four students, or more, take a house or a room, and then club together and engage a cook, and that their weekly bills scarcely amount to a teston < 1/5 of a crown > a head. The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London
“You expect that every man pays you the least attention or treats you remotely decently is going to be your Prince Charming.” Sunday Scribblings – Happy Endings
Man wanted over indecent assault in Adelaide's northern suburb POLICE are looking for a man with "scraggly" hair and a closely trimmed moustache after a teenage girl was indecently assaulted in the northern suburbs this morning. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Day or at any other time, behaves rudely or indecently within the walls of any house of public worship; wilfully interrupts or disturbs any assembly for public worship within the place of such assembly or out of it "; for one" who on the Lord's Day, keeps open his shop, workhouse, warehouse or place of business on that day, except works of necessity or charity "; for an innholder or victualler who," on the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The stockade was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners and the first Union soldiers to arrive were housed and fed decently.
Although the system works decently, it has an annoying tendency to lock onto either an inanimate object or another enemy all on its own.
“You expect that every manpays you the least attentionor treats youremotely decently is going to be your Prince Charming.” 2008 June « Becca’s Byline
Police were today continuing to hunt two men who indecently exposed themselves to girls in Swindon.
My dad was a decently attractive man in his mid-thirties.
The ballet proved decently enough danced at a creditable second-tier level; the women, however, markedly outmatched the men.
Following this site has made me forever disappointed when I walk into a costco or other expectedly low quality grocery store bakery and see only decently decorated cakes. As We Fumble Along
I wish I'd lived more quietly and decently.
If you get a good script, a decently good director who has deflated his ego, a committed studio and crew willing to collaborate and work in tangent, and even challenge gifted directors choices, everyone working together could possibly put together something that will make little boys and large googly eyed big boys come back for more, by giving them something that has a nescient chance of flowering into a cash cow franchise. Lionsgate's Conan Movie on the Fast Track with New Writers « FirstShowing.net
I guess that's his standard line - if we behave decently, so will they.
Britain needs insolvency experts, who can deal with what may be family disasters as efficiently and decently as possible. Times, Sunday Times
You would not have had time to come back and decently pack your things and depart.
Three weeks earlier he exposed himself then indecently assaulted a 17-year-old girl walking in the same area just after 5pm on May 20.
Bishop Peter Ball went into retirement after being cautioned by police for indecently assaulting a trainee monk.
She refused to accept their strictures, arguing that the colour in her scarf should not matter as long as she was decently covered.
I said a few pacifying words to Felim, to ensure a decently cooked meal this evening, and rushed to my mother's office on the sublevel. Artichoke
We've acted honorably, decently.
A huge statue of Lenin pointed the way forward in front of the city hall, the only decently maintained building in town.
Unlike other strange fuzzes of its kind, the Uglyface can handle chords decently with the right settings.
The local wine is good and decently priced and the cakes and pastries are delicious. Times, Sunday Times
If you're used to shooting in England, then dove-shooting in northern Argentina seems indecently sybaritic and comfortable.
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
He works out, has done martial arts for years, and is a decently bulky guy.
Sharpness, color saturation, and other video components are otherwise decently done.
In the end, I had to put a farthing on the lid to keep it decently shut. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Everything was pretty good, reasonably portioned, and was decently priced overall.
He said that he would live quietly and decently if granted parole. The Sun
Johnny was not lazy, nor was the school failing to educate him decently: He had a learning disorder.
The prosecuting counsel told the jury that there was no evidence that the victim had been indecently assaulted.
This year's festival can boast a decently long list of sponsors.
Welcome to another movie which starts decently, looks promising - and then completely collapses at the end.
We've tended to believe that conflict and difference can be resolved by rationality, by negotiating, by treating all sides decently and fairly.
They also found patients, some with dementia, were sometimes not covered decently or suffered a lack of dignity.
It also turns out that the Target employees hate their jobs and can't be bothered to shelve any of the swimwear decently, which is to say, at all. Of bikinis, and other demons
He also adjusted her top so that she was more decently covered.
Both Spain and Italy played decently in spells but could not find a cutting edge.
Whether women were in politics or the wash-house was a sociological abstrusity beyond his line of thought, and not though it cost him all his fortune to refuse could he have decently addressed any association even on beloved sporting matters. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
At lunchtime, all the 25 tapas come in at a ridiculously cheap 1.50, and in the evening remain decently priced at 3.50.
The taxi driver spoke decently good English and said he had been to Toronto, something that curiously put me at ease.
Othello, though decently acted by Keith David, needs to be of more heroic stature, more purblind nobility, and, eventually, of more pitiable, poetic grandeur than mere competence can summon.
How else does one decently put this, but: "Are you are as nice as you look?"
KristiB: my chuck was decently fatty but I did wonder if maybe she called for too much bulghur. Ground Beef & Bulghur Kibbe With Whole Wheat & Cornmeal Socca: Emphasis On The Socca
The apothecary was a decently dressed young man with a kindly air and reasonably clean hands. Drums of Autumn
Ian Beckett, the deputy chief constable of Surrey, has been cleared of indecently assaulting two female colleagues.
We do not need magic or messiahs to help us live decently, to provide an ethical code.
Now if he marries — decently, that is — some woman you know that can assist him in the world, let him have what he wants. Doctor Thorne
It's also decently fuel-efficient, a Low Emissions Vehicle, and crash-tests well for its size.
There, I’ve heard a decently argued case made for one or the other by my 12 year old niece, but why arugula is stupid and science is dumb? Matthew Yglesias » Human Achievement Hour
They should behave, for want of a better word, decently.
What's funny is that it's written in katakana, which is a script that even people who can't read Japanese well usually learn quite decently because it is usually used for foreign non-Japanese words, and people learn at least how to write their names with it. Manse
The principal bazaar is a very long street, decently clean, covered over, and all lined with small shops. Three Months in the Soudan
Why didn't they move to where the work was, when decades before millions had migrated north to find decently paying jobs?
A patrician named Michel Steno, having behaved indecently to some of the women assembled at the great civic banquet given by the doge, was kicked out of the house by order of the doge, and in revenge wrote some scurrilous lines against the dogaressa. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Bundles of bones and bundles of bones, all wrapped decently in tapa, until for all the world it was like the parcels - post department at a post office. SHIN-BONES
He did his duty, but he scuttled back to his seat as soon as he decently could. Times, Sunday Times
Being decently and orderlye pullished, with a requisite rebatement, _Lataster gule thore orbicle, Astragals_ or Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Report this comment show me a decently researched demographic of the british pop. in relation to sex, race, hobnobs or rich tea, oh forgot religion and the we can balance the house of commons. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
He grabbed her from behind and indecently assaulted her but she managed to fight him off and ran to a nearby house.
A motorist repeatedly blocked the path of a woman after indecently exposing himself to her as she waited for a bus on a busy Richmond road.
And yet in euery of the these passions being as it were vndecencies, there is a comelinesse to be discerned, which some men can keepe and some men can not, as to be angry, or to enuy, or to hate, or to pitie, or to be ashamed decently, that is none otherwise then reason requireth. The Arte of English Poesie
she was rather indecently dressed
Our responsibility to behave fairly and decently is something we owe to other people, not to government. Archive 2008-01-01
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
A man was seen to be indecently exposing himself along a footpath.
He has always something to say about everything and can't use decently moderated language regardless of the situation.
They are tyrants and ideologues whose sole concern is imposing their Nietzschean will to power upon the weak, the uprightly bourgeois, the decently intentioned.
What we do have is a decently paced script that builds the tension small step by small step.
It was she who "conversed" during their walk, and while she trotted by Tembarom's side looking more early-Victorian than ever in a neat, fringed mantle and a small black bonnet of a fashion long decently interred by a changing world, Tembarom had never seen anything resembling it in New York; but he liked it and her increasingly at every moment. T. Tembarom
“You cannot get the low Irish to wash their faces, even were you to lay before them ewers of crystal water and scented soap; you cannot get them to dress decently, although you supply them with ready-made clothes.” A Renegade History of the United States
I myself am far from desiring that the wife and mother should not possess privileges; it seems to me that the work of a woman who brings up children decently, creditably, and honourably is of such immense importance that it ought to be suitably rewarded. Marriage as a Trade
Anyone raised decently would want a kid.
A whistling teenager who indecently exposed himself four times to young girls was today being hunted by police.
According to the Code, members must, in their dealings with consumers, other businesses and each other, act decently, fairly and reasonably at all times.
You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose.
I dinna like to use siller unless I kend it was decently come by; and maybe it might turn into sclate-stanes, and cheat some poor man. The Black Dwarf
He did his duty, but he scuttled back to his seat as soon as he decently could. Times, Sunday Times
The young man was found not guilty of indecently assaulting the 16-year-old schoolgirl by the jury after a three-hour retirement.
We expect it to perform the task of driving down the road decently well.
Everything was pretty good, reasonably portioned, and was decently priced overall.
However, the new administration intends to ensure our elderly residents are decently housed and are fully consulted.
Can we get men to behave decently to each other if they no longer believe in God?
The hotelier in the resort for six years was arrested on Thursday after indecently exposing himself to a plain clothes male officer.
Five are decently ahead, two pretty well around the flotation price. Times, Sunday Times
Singers worked on their projection and enunciation so that the primitive recording technology would render their voices at least halfway decently.
What it does have is a collection of pop songs that are decently orchestrated and fleshed out with dense instrumentation.
There are coffee-and-tea making facilities, decently stocked and not outrageously priced minibars and safes; most rooms also have air-conditioning.
The action scenes are choreographed decently, but lack any originality and punch.
He was found guilty of indecently assaulting a student.
Looking along the line separating the bright and dark halves (the terminator line), at you can make out a decently prominent crater near the top of the lower quarter.
Their bodies, thinned by rigorous fasting and scarred by the disciplines of self-mortification, were decently concealed by long dark robes.
Apparently he was wanted for a series of offences ranging from indecently exposing himself to children to assaults on people who refused to give him money for meths or whatever he used to anaesthetise himself against his life.
The prospect of the government's finances returning to structural deficit runs afoul of the notion that a surplus must be maintained now if those who retire in ten years' time are to be decently provided for.
My heart was heavy as I put him in his grave, where I saw him decently inearthed in my garden, and a memorial placed to mark the spot where my faithful dog was laid.
Another positive note is that the new 'Southern', whose trains run through on the other platform, have invested in decently-designed signs and an evocative logo. Railway Echo No.3
While the 500S performed decently for most tasks, it wasn't up to snuff for hard-core gamers.
He grabbed her from behind and violently attacked and indecently assaulted her.
There are also some well-chosen illustrations, very decently reproduced on art paper.
they don't know how to dress decently
The system makes it difficult for immigrants to work and be treated decently by landlords.
But I dinna ken, Elshie; to be free wi’ you, I dinna like to use siller unless I kend it was decently come by; and maybe it might turn into sclate-stanes, and cheat some poor man.” The Black Dwarf
He was convicted twice in 1989 for indecently exposing himself to ten-year-old girls.
I have to pay bus fares to work and be decently dressed.
‘These men died for us gentlemen,’ he told the council, ‘and we at least owe it to their memories, decently to meet and garnish the spot of their sepulture.’
He said that he would live quietly and decently if granted parole. The Sun
And yet in euery of the these passions being as it were vndecencies, there is a comelinesse to be discerned, which some men can keepe and some men can not, as to be angry, or to enuy, or to hate, or to pitie, or to be ashamed decently, that is none otherwise then reason requireth. The Arte of English Poesie
What strikes Read'is how decently people behave faced with extreme adversity. Times, Sunday Times
So nuts to you if you fix the sucker and then fail to get it working decently and have no choice but load Windows again.
It's hard to decide which is wreckier-- a wal-mart cake with a horrible correction/misspelling I mean, once you see that round confetti, your expectations drop or a decently decorated cake with a name blotted out in a DOUBLE LAYER of frosting applied with the cake icing tip! There, I Fixed It
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead. Kurt Vonnegut
Police are hunting for a sex pest who indecently exposed himself after trapping a 10-year-old girl in a St Annes phone box.
The allies say they will treat their prisoners decently.
Apparently he was wanted for a series of offences ranging from indecently exposing himself to children to assaults on people who refused to give him money.
Again, Thetis seems to do indecently, when she exhorts her son to follow his pleasures and minds him of companying with women. Essays and Miscellanies
I golfed pretty decently, though not nearly as good as Adam.

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