decentishadj.
/ˈdiːsəntɪʃ/ colloquial.
Somewhat decent, pretty decent.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being satisfactory > [adjective]
wellOE
sufferablea1340
worthy1340
sufficient1489
paregala1500
competent1535
something like?1556
right1567
sweet1577
fairish1611
all right1652
fair1656
comfortable1658
decent1711
respectable1750
unrepulsive1787
decentisha1814
fair-to-middling1822
fine1828
christena1838
OK1839
tidy1844
not (or none) so dusty?1856
sweet1898
oke1928
okey-doke1934
okey-dokey1936
tickety-boo1939
cool1951
aight1993
a1814 C. Dibdin in Universal Songster (1825) III. 83 At last laid up in a decentish condition.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 7 298 The Jenkinsops had maintained a decentish sort of character.
1854 J. L. Motley Let. 8 May in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 166 I have a decentish kind of room here, and I think I shall stop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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