decently
/ˈdiːsəntli/ adverb C2- In a decent manner. · You need to be decently attired to enter the restaurant.
- To a reasonable or acceptable degree. · a decently high salary
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I was so bored by the whole proceeding that I made an excuse as soon as I decently could and retired to my bedroom.
“Yes, yes, make your mind easy, he shall be decently interred in the newest sack we can find.
Ten times, as I told you, he came to see Dantès’ father, and offered to receive him in his own house; and the night or two before his death, as I have already said, he left his purse on the mantelpiece, with which they paid the old man’s debts, and buried him decently; and so Edmond’s father died, as he had lived, without doing harm to anyone.
I made inquiries, and found that the house in the Champs-Élysées is his own property, and certainly it was very decently kept up.
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