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Antonyms for decentlyde·cent·ly

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  1. decentlyadverb

    in a decent manner

    "they don't know how to dress decently"

    Antonyms:
    indecently

    Synonyms:
    in good order, decent, the right way, properly, right

  2. properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right wayadverb

    in the right manner

    "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"

    Antonyms:
    indecently

    Synonyms:
    in good order, the right way, by rights, powerful, justly, flop, properly, right on, mightily, right, correctly, mighty, aright, decent

How to use decently in a sentence?

  1. Svetlana Gannushkina:

    The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone.

  2. Nasir El-Rufai:

    We are waiting for the person who will come and intervene. They will go back in body bags because nobody will come to Nigeria and tell us how to run our country, we have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

  3. Nasir El-Rufai:

    We have got that independence and we are trying to run our country as decently as possible.

  4. Don Marquis:

    If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.

  5. Angela Holguin:

    All the money I had in the bank, I put into my house to be able to live decently, but now I live worse than a dog, we can't figure out what we're being punished for, because this is too much humiliation.

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