Sentence examples for supposedly decent from inspiring English sources

" 'Scarface' is a relentlessly bitter, satirical tale of greed, in which all supposedly decent emotions are sent up for the possible ways in which they can be perverted," Vincent Canby wrote in The Times in 1983.

But I found myself thinking — except I didn't say it to Sallie — that though we may have thought we were doing the puppy a favor by trying to find it a home, possibly we were really doing ourselves a favor by presenting ourselves to be the kind of supposedly decent people who do that sort of thing.

While Labour is led by the most regressive of leftists, a supposedly "decent socialist" who nevertheless took money from, or provided fawning commentary for, the propaganda channels of kleptomaniac, homophobic and imperialist Russia and theocratic, misogynist and homophobic Iran, the Conservative right has taken the opportunity to run riot and run us out of the EU.

(Thatscribed by Ryan Gaffney).

We, of course, know better than to believe everything we read as the total return on equities during that supposedly horrendous time was decent, to say the least.

Most of them raise livestock or grow tobacco and, supposedly, they also produce a decent wine.

This is supposedly what happens when you provide decent social benefits to regular people.

Nor is Zandvliet a master of character; as individuals, the Germans make scant impression, aside from a pair of supposedly inseparable twins, played by Emil and Oskar Belton, and Sebastian Louis Hofmannn), the decent conscience of the group.

This second principle is prioritarian and supposedly deals with the problem of inequality of capabilities of individuals above the decent genetic minimum.

Her thousands of supposedly amazing game concepts would soon be whittled down to a handful of decent semi-promising ones.

Spiky and still fighting for a decent space in the bookshop is David Foster Wallace's book of essays A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (Abacus, £7.99), published three years ago and still almost impossible to find.