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How to pronounce decently in English?

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Synonyms decent, properly, right
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they don't know how to dress decently.

Examples of decently

decently
A station so desperate for listeners it would fire its only decently rated host.
From the dailynews.com
The best funds of the past five years have done decently in up and down markets.
From the usatoday.com
What so many of the people Janah met really wanted was a job that pays decently.
From the forbes.com
Decently dressed, I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It works decently enough, however there is some distortion during the resampling.
From the techcrunch.com
It's there or thereabouts in most of the dynamics areas and is decently packaged.
From the newarkadvertiser.co.uk
What I want is to be paid decently when I lend financial institutions my money.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
We got a bit lost, but managed to find the right track and finish off decently.
From the edition.cnn.com
They came decently equipped, averaged 25-plus mpg overall and accelerated well.
From the online.wsj.com
More examples
  • In a decent manner; "they don't know how to dress decently"
  • Properly: in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"
  • (decent) socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"
  • (decent) becoming: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
  • (decent) conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana
  • (decent) adequate: sufficient for the purpose; "an adequate income"; "the food was adequate"; "a decent wage"; "enough food"; "food enough"
  • (decent) observing conventional sexual mores in speech or behavior or dress; "a modest neckline in her dress"; "though one of her shoulder straps had slipped down, she was perfectly decent by current standards"
  • (Decent) Decency is the measure of an object's worth and value. See .
  • (decent) Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances; Having a suitable conformity to basic moral standards; showing integrity, fairness, or other characteristics associated with moral uprightness; Sufficiently clothed or dressed to be seen; Fair; good enough; okay; Significant; substantial