semidecent

Definitions

1. Having a small amount of decency.
2. Of reasonable but not excellent quality.

Examples

“They talked a sales tax and large armies and large navies, but these farmers and the 6,000,000 women on the farms, who are doing an awful lot of thinking and will vote⟳ accordingly, believe⟳ that when we won the war to end⟳ war, if we had a semidecent, honest Government, there was no need⟳ and there is no need⟳ for large armies and large navies.”

“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.”

“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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