The phrase "appropriate decent" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe something that is both suitable and respectable, but the combination is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The attire for the event should be appropriate decent, reflecting the formal nature of the occasion."
Alternatives: "suitably respectable" or "properly decent".
Those officials whose shame did not reach a certain appropriate and decent level were ordered to the warehouse at the appointed time.
"I think it's the appropriate, respectful and decent thing to do".
We want a system that is flexible and supportive of disabled people and which helps people into good, appropriate jobs with decent wages.
The human rights commissioner, Tim Wilson, has called on the government to apologise to Save the Children for its handling of the matter, saying it would be the "appropriate, respectful and decent thing to do" after two officially commissioned reviews found the claims were unsubstantiated.
Appeals to an "average" insurance package similarly provide no clear basis for deciding whether a set of benefits is truly appropriate to a decent minimum.
As a result of these and other pro-growth policies, Singapore, with little to none in foreign aid, has become an economic powerhouse within a few decades, clocking in with the highest growth in the world this past quarter, all while providing decent, appropriate and affordable housing, healthcare, infrastructure and education to its citizens.
It regulates everything and makes people behave in a decent and appropriate way to each other.
"Someone within government needs to do the decent and appropriate thing and apologise," he told Sky News on Wednesday.
"Places like Hackensack, which is host to a homeless shelter, should not have the added burden of having their taxpayers pay for the cost of a decent and appropriate burial," Ms. Weinberg said.
Something comparable with school holidays would be more appropriate, and if a decent job could be done in two years, that could save enough money to pay for the rest.
When I contact the school, I get an email explaining that the cameras were "temporary", put up "as part of our ongoing commitment to ensuring safeguarding" and there to "take a still image of what would be shown if we were to install CCTV, in order to allow parents to be fully confident that they were totally decent and appropriate".
