Semidecent

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Having a small amount of decency..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a small amount of decency.
2. Of reasonable but not excellent quality.

Example Sentences

They talked a sales tax and large armies and large navies, but these farmers and the 6,000,000 women on the farms, who are doing an awful lot of thinking and will vote accordingly, believe that when we won the war to end war, if we had a semidecent, honest Government, there was no need and there is no need for large armies and large navies.

The semidecent ones always get the initial guilty look, like a little boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar; then they get the embarrassed look (as they should); then they bow out gently and leave.

How in the hell did I ever think he was a semidecent guy? He was a douche and one hell of a good actor.

You would have been proud of the vets, turning the Patton into a museum, and then into a semidecent fighting ship.

If you live with a decent (even a semidecent) system at your disposal and choose not to use it, the joke's on you.

Rylann struggled to pull at least one semidecent retort out of the pounding fog that was her brain . . . but came up dry as a bone.

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• more semidecent
• most semidecent
• semi-decent

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