The phrase "a decent response" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are describing a response that is reasonably good or satisfactory. For example, "My boss gave me a decent response when I asked for a promotion."
The well-mannered Herzog failed to formulate a decent response to Bibi's smear campaign.
Most often though, the hostility stems from the interviewer's frustration at not getting a decent response to a decent inquiry in order that the public are properly informed.
It seems to be increasingly important to me! Susan Sontag wrote her essay on camp in 1964, but by 1986 there still hadn't been a decent response.
If you take both Rapp and Spacey at their word, this seems like a decent response: an immediate apology, not just for behavior that Spacey doesn't recall but for the emotional toll it took on Rapp.
The trick to a red carpet interview is to find a question interesting enough to elicit a decent response, yet considered safe by the celebrities' handlers, who could teach a lesson in enforcing conformity to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
Your RFQ blast should result in a decent response rate.
They didn't have any decent response to all these consumer devices coming into their turf".
"I want a humanitarian and decent response to those people who are victims of war, that are dying in the Mediterranean trying to reach a place of safety.
Because we believed perhaps that it was someone else's job – some elected official or government agency, or some activist organization fighting for the Latino community, someone else's responsibility to compel the proper and decent response to a humanitarian crisis within our own borders.
If I had the freedoms you have in high school, things might have been different". Yet for kids raised outside this bubble, perhaps most especially immigrant kids, what passes for a decent parental response is: You're a lesbian, that's cool, but you can't be a lesbian when you're out of the house.
