Which preposition to use with decent
It was awfully decent of those chaps.
"They've always been jolly decent to us, and it was on our account they had this row with Grice."
"It must be that the illustrious Signore wish to do me justice," he said, smoothing the remnant of his hair, as men of his class prepare themselves for the presence of their superiors, "and it would not be decent in an humble fisherman to refuse them the opportunity.
Yet, as it is not decent for personages so reverend to return on foot, and as you have not the appearance of expert riders, my eunuchs shall tie you on your asses, with the precaution that your backs be not turned towards me, for they understand etiquette.
But he was decent about it, after all.
Was this also going to turn against her and trip her upjust to show she was really, under the touch and the test, as decent as any one; and with no one but herself the wiser for it meanwhile, and no proof to show but that, as a consequence, she should be unmarried to the end?
And a deal too many to bring up decent on ten shillin' a week.
I know that you love meyou all love us; only one can't get anything decent out of you.
All these Indians had close cotton dresses, having a narrow cloth round their waists, being more decent than the natives of Cuba, where the women only use this piece of dress.
I was selfish and reckless through passion, I've been a little unselfish and halfway decent through love.
Judge Miller, splendid in green moire-antique, with diamonds in her ears, while Marcia Fenton and Ella Backus figured in white tarletan, one with trimmings of blue, the other with trimmings of pink, and both with waists so much lower than Ethelyn's that Mrs. Markham thought the latter very decent by comparison.
"Youmarried a rotter, Loothat couldn't even live decent with hisold man.
'And now, my dear, you had better go and make yourself decent before dinner.