semi-decent
semi-decent is the alternative form of semidecent.
Meaning of semidecent
Adjective
semidecent (comparative more semidecent, superlative most semidecent)
- Having a small amount of decency.
- 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...1922, War Department Appropriation Bill, 1923, page 648
- Of reasonable but not excellent quality.
- You would have been proud of the vets, turning the Patton into a museum, and then into a semidecent fighting ship.2007, Mike Shepherd, Kris Longknife: Audacious, →ISBN
Forms of semi-decent
| comparative | more semi-decent |
|---|---|
| superlative | most semi-decent |
Questions about semi-decent
- What is semi-decent the alternative form of?
- Semi-decent is the alternative form of semidecent.
Words near semi-decent in the dictionary
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