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decent adjective- sufficiently dressed for standards of propriety, especially in the phrase “are you decent?” UK, 1949
A specialised sense of “decent” probably of theatrical origins. - A sharp knock sounded on the bathroom door, followed by a cheerful “Are you decent?” and just barely preceded by Donovan’s entrance into the room. — Kay Hooper, Kissed by Magic (in Enchanted), p. 55, 1983
- Kyle enters Lucy’s suite, calling out, “Are you decent?” Discovering she has left for the airport, he muses, “I guess she was.” — Roger Ebert, Writing of the film “Written on the Wind”, on the Chicago Sun-Times website,, August 2003
- good, pleasing, excellent US
- — Detroit Free Press, 4 November 1979
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, November 1990
- — Lee McNelis, 30 + And a Wake-Up, p. 7, 1991
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