Sentence examples for was barely decent from inspiring English sources
When he moved to France at the age of twenty-six, Cioran's command of French was barely decent, yet he ended up as one of the greatest stylists of that language.
Or how about Eva Herzigova, the Wonderbra model who recently appeared on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in a Dolce & Gabbana Le Smoking jacket worn not with anything as sober as tailored trousers but with shorts cut so high they were barely decent.
Six? That's barely enough to play a decent game of charades.
But to torture a baking analogy, by the time one separated the wheat from the chaff among the new models here, there were barely enough ingredients left to make a decent loaf of bread.
Excepting the idiosyncratic flexibility of the Guggenheim's ramp, there is barely a decent gallery among our main museums, although we seem to have stopped talking about the effect this has on curators, their exhibitions and thus on the seeing and comprehending of art.
Showmanship was barely involved.
