6 sentences with “decent”

Today, the film industry regularly offers us characters who are also unreal: less decent, less intelligent and less noble than our friends and neighbours.

Instead, for most, the only hope of achieving a decent standard of living and relative personal stability was to form the right connections within the huge party bureaucracy.

Since the centres of newspaper production were often in or near the capitals, usually written in the official language of the state, over time more and more people acquired at least a decent working knowledge of those languages.

In order for society to be able to fulfil its own demands, its members must be able to think, to value and defend peace, to claim their right to learn, to mental and physical health, to decent housing and work, to rest and recreation.

Ordinary workers also suffered; no one paid a white man a decent wage when a slave worked for nothing. When work was associated with the loss of freedom, argued pro-slavery advocates, all white workers bore a stigma that marked them as little better than slaves.

Perhaps it would be a good idea, Laura said, to go on a musical tour of other cities. To which her friend replied, "I don't think you'll find more than four places in the whole state of Nevada that have a decent piano. After making several phone calls, she agreed with her friend.