Sentence examples for scarcely decent from inspiring English sources

Graves did not follow the temperate advice he offered his fictitious military man in "Advice to Colonel Valentine": Friend, honor your gray hairs, keep out of fashion — Even if a foolish girl, not yet full grown, Confronts you with a scarcely decent passion.

The size of pension pot saved here is scarcely enough to afford a decent income in retirement, let alone fund other people, and the reality is that many people will spend their final amounts of cash on care home costs.

The country is about the size of western Europe, but with scarcely a decent road outside any of the main towns.Voter registration started only in late June; by July 10th, over 1m people will have registered.

These clouds are scarcely comely.

Looking around the decent but scarcely luxurious training facility (at 1pm the Olympians and Paralympians have to leave to make way for local schools), I can't help thinking how much money washes around the art world by comparison.

But it will all remain a sad fantasy as long as we're stuck with officials who can't even run a decent meeting of an organization that's now scarcely more than a little club.

Now scarcely 10 per cent are.

Decent conversationalist.

Be decent.

Scarcely 2 yrs.

Decent odds.