Synonyms for decently
de·cent·ly

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1. decentlyadverb

   in a decent manner

   "they don't know how to dress decently"

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

   Antonyms:
   indecently

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?"

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

   Antonyms:
   indecently

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1. List of paraphrases for "decently":

   aright, politely

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How to use decently in a sentence?

1. Svetlana Gannushkina:

   The police are handling themselves decently toward everyone.

2. 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.

3. Nasir El-Rufai:

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

4. 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.

5. Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy:

   The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.