Decently

Definitions: Decently

Decently

Adverb

1. In a decent manner; "they don't know how to dress decently".

2. In the right manner; "please do your job properly!" "can't you carry me decent?".

Date "decently" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Decently

Synonyms: decent (adv), in good order (adv), properly (adv), right (adv), the right way (adv). (additional references)

Antonyms: improperly (adv), indecently (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Decently

English words defined with "decently": decent ♦ Gradely. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I needed him to treat me decently and get a job, and he needed to empty my bank account. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) You told me those men would be treated decently. (The Outlaw Josey Wales; writing credit: Forrest Carter; Sonia Chernus)
Lyrics	Yes the pages of don't talk decently It's true ("CRADLE OF LOVE"; performing artist: Billy Idol)
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Domain	Title
Books	All Things Decently & in Order: And Other Writings on Germans from Russia Heritage (reference) Decently and in Order (reference) See the old lady decently (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Thomas Carlyle	The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The filth comports itself decently.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	She brought the apple box to the doorway and straightened the sack decently over it.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The myriads who built the pyramids to be the tombs of the Pharaohs were fed on garlic, and it may be were not decently buried themselves.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Angelina Jolie	I never expected this one to be accepted by people and seen kind of because of all the chances we took. So if it's even received decently, I'll be quite happy with it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Decently" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 98.48% of the time. "Decently" is used about 132 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	98.48%	130	28,019
Noun (proper)	1.52%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	132	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "decently"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		behoorlik (decent, fitting, proper, properly, suitable), na behore (properly), behoorlikheidshalwe (properly). (various references)

Albanian		në mënyrë të lezetshme, modest (decent, demure, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, modest, neat, quiet, unassertive, unobtrusive, unpretentious), mirë (alright, good, myrrh, nice, nicely, ok, okay, okey, securely, well). (various references)

Arabic		‏في غاية الإحترام, ‏بإحتشام (coyly, humbly, seemly). (various references)

Bulgarian		скромно (frugally, humbly, meanly, quiet, quietly, simply), прилично (properly). (various references)

Chinese		正派地. (various references)

Czech		slušnì (fairly), èestnì (ex officio, honestly). (various references)

Dutch		netjes (orderly, properly), naar behoren (as befitting, properly). (various references)

Esperanto		dece (properly). (various references)

Finnish		siivosti (quiet). (various references)

French		convenablement. (various references)

German		annehmbar (acceptable, adoptable, assumable, decent, passable, possible, presentable, presentably, reasonable, reasonably well, receivable, receivably, satisfactory, tolerable). (various references)

Greek		ευπρεπώσ. (various references)

Hungarian		illõen (properly). (various references)

Italian		decentemente (properly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"良く (gracefully, plausibly, politely, tactfully), �"裁良く (respectfully, tastefully). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ていさいよく (respectfully, tastefully), ていよく (gracefully, low-wing, plausibly, politely, tactfully). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecentlyday.(various references)

Portuguese		decentemente (properly). (various references)

Romanian		decent (decent, decorous, decorously, modest, properly, respectable, seemly), omeneşte (fittingly, humanly, manwise, suitably). (various references)

Russian		любезно (civilly, fondly, graciously, kindly, obligingly, pleasantly, politely), порядочно (quite a few). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pristojno (civilly, properly). (various references)

Spanish		como es debido (properly), bien (all right, alright, amply, benefit, fine, good, nice, nicely, okay, prettily, properly, quite right, right, rightly, sake, stet, thank you, tidily, true, welfare, well). (various references)

Swedish		passande (appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, competent, decent, due, eligible, fit, fitting, good, likely, meet, opportune, pass, seemly, suitable, suited). (various references)

Turkish		terbiyeli bir biçimde (mannerly), iyi (agreeable, all right, alright, b, comfortable, decent, fair, fine, good, gratifying, great, happy, just, kind, o.k., ok, okay, sound, well, well enough), hoşgörüyle (indulgently), adam gibi (decent). (various references)

Ukranian		скромно (coyly, humbly, lowly, maidenlike, simply), славно, мило (agreeably, amiably, foam, soap), люб'язно (affably, graciously, obligingly, pleasantly), ласкаво (blandly), пристойно (presentably, seemly), порядно (presentably), добре (all right, familiarly, good, nicely, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, right-ho, smoothly, well). (various references)

Vietnamese		tao nhã (polished, refined), tươm tất tử tế, tốt (all right, famously, feracious, fertile, fine, hunky, o.k., splendid), tề chỉnh lịch sự (decent), có ý tứ kha khá, đoan trang (comely, decent, decorous, matronal, matronlike, matronly, respectable), đứng đắn (earnest, serious, seriously). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	honeste. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	1 Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 40
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Panta euschmonwV kai kata taxin ginesqw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Omnia autem honeste et secundum ordinem fiant
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	But be alle thingis don onestli, and bi due ordre in you.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And let all thinges be done honestly and in order.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Let all things be done decently and in order.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Let all things be done decently, and in order.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	1 Corinthians Chapter 14, Verse 40
Bulgarian	че после се яви на Якова, тогава на всички апостоли;
Cebuano	apan mao lamang nga kinahanglan ang tanang mga butang pagahimoon sa paagi nga maligdong ug mahusay.
Chinese	凡事都要規規矩矩的按著次序行。
Croatian	A sve neka bude dostojno i uredno.
Danish	Men alt ske sømmeligt og med Orden!
Dutch	Laat alle dingen eerlijk en met orde geschieden.
Finnish	Mutta kaikki tapahtukoon säädyllisesti ja järjestyksessä.
French	Mais que tout se fasse avec bienséance et avec ordre.
German	Lasset alles ehrbar und ordentlich zugehen.
Haitian Creole	Men, tout bagay fèt pou fèt avèk respè, avèk disiplen.
Hungarian	Mindenek ékesen és jó renddel legyenek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tetapi semuanya harus dilakukan dengan baik dan teratur.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi segala perkara itu hendaklah dilakukan dengan senonoh dan dengan peraturannya.
Italian	Ma tutto avvenga decorosamente e con ordine.
Korean	모 �" 것 을 � � 당 하 게 하 � 질 서 대 로 하 라 !
Latvian	Bet visam jânotiek pieklâjîgi un kârtîgi.
Maori	Otira kia atanga te mahi i nga mea katoa, kia totika.
Modern Greek	παντα ας γινωνται ευσχημονως και κατα ταξιν.
Norwegian	men la alt skje sømmelig og med orden!
Portuguese	Mas faça-se tudo decentemente e com ordem.
Rumanian	Dar toate sq se facq kn chip cuviincios wi cu rknduialq.
Russian	ФПМШЛП ЧУЈ �"ПМЦОП �'ЩФШ �'МБЗП� ТЙУФПКОП Й ЮЙООП.
Shuar	Túmaitiat antukchamin awajtsuk Ashí shiir Túratarum.
Spanish	Pero hágase todo decentemente y con orden.
Swahili	Lakini yote yafanyike kwa heshima na kwa utaratibu.
Swedish	Men låten allt tillgå på höviskt sätt och med ordning.
Thai	แต่สิ่งสารพั�"ซึ่งจะกระทำนั้น จงกระทำตามสมควร และให้เป็นระเบียบเรียบร้อย
Ukrainian	Але все нехай буде добропристойно і статечно!
Uma	Hawe'ea kana rababehi ntuku' ohea to natao pai' ntuku' aku-na.
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Derivations
	Words ending with "decently": indecently. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Decently" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decastyle, defently. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "decently" (pronounced dē"suntlē)
7	-ē" s u n t l ē	recently.
6	-s u n t l ē	complacently, incessantly, innocently, magnificently.
5	-u n t l ē	abundantly, accidently, adamantly, apparently, ardently, arrogantly, blatantly, brilliantly, coherently, competently, concomitantly, concurrently, confidently, consequently, consistently, constantly, conveniently, currently, defiantly, differently, diligently, efficiently, elegantly, eloquently, eminently, evidently, excellently, extravagantly, exultantly, fervently, flagrantly, flamboyantly, fluently, fraudulently, frequently, hesitantly, imminently, impatiently, importantly, imprudently, inadvertently, incoherently, incompetently, independently, indignantly, inefficiently, infrequently, inherently, insistently, instantly, insufficiently, intelligently, intermittently, leniently, militantly, negligently, obediently, patently, patiently, permanently, persistently, pleasantly, poignantly, predominantly, presently, prominently, prudently, pungently, reluctantly, reverently, significantly, silently, stridently, stringently, subsequently, sufficiently, transparently, triumphantly, unpleasantly, urgently, valiantly, vehemently, violently, virulently.
4	-n t l ē	bluntly, faintly, gently, intently, jointly, nonchalantly, quaintly, saintly.
3	-t l ē	abruptly, absolutely, accurately, acutely, adequately, adroitly, affectionately, alternately, appropriately, approximately, aptly, astutely, brightly, commensurately, compassionately, completely, concretely, correctly, costly, courtly, covertly, curtly, definitely, deftly, deliberately, delicately, desperately, devoutly, difficultly, directly, discreetly, dishonestly, dispassionately, disproportionately, distinctly, earnestly, elaborately, exactly, expertly, explicitly, exquisitely, firstly, flatly, forthrightly, fortnightly, fortunately, ghastly, ghostly, greatly, honestly, hotly, illicitly, immaculately, immediately, imperfectly, implicitly, inaccurately, inadequately, inappropriately, incorrectly, indefinitely, indirectly, indiscriminately, ineptly, infinitely, innately, inordinately, intimately, intricately, justly, knightly, lastly, lately, legitimately, lightly, manifestly, minutely, moderately, modestly, mostly, motley, neatly, nightly, overtly, partly, passionately, perfectly, politely, portly, priestly, privately, promptly, proportionately, quietly, raptly, remotely, resolutely, rightly, robustly, secretly, separately, shortly, slightly, smartly, softly, sprightly, stately, steadfastly, stoutly, strictly, succinctly, sweetly, swiftly, tacitly, tightly, ultimately, unfortunately, unjustly, unsightly, vastly, Whitely.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-l-n-t-y"
	-2 letters: decent.
	-3 letters: dynel, elect, lycee, needy, teeny, tyned, yente.
	-4 letters: cede, celt, cent, cete, deet, dele, delt, dene, dent, deny, dyne, eely, eyed, eyen, eyne, leet, lend, lent, need, teed, teel, teen, tele, tend, tyee, tyne, yeld.
	-5 letters: cee, cel, dee, del, den, dey, dye, eel, eld, end, eye, led, lee, let, ley, lye, nee, net, ted, tee, tel, ten, tye, yen, yet.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-l-n-t-y"
	+2 letters: decadently, indecently.
	+3 letters: conceitedly, concertedly, connectedly, contentedly, deficiently, reconditely.
	+4 letters: adolescently, antecedently, glycerinated, indefectibly, indelicately, indiscreetly, iridescently, unaffectedly, unexpectedly.
	+5 letters: adrenalectomy, clandestinely, considerately, countermelody, deprecatingly, encyclopedist.
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