Sentence examples for were not decent from inspiring English sources

"The girls who were detained were not decent girls like your daughter or my daughter," one senior general told a CNN reporter, and asserted that not all of them had been virgins.

Russia, meanwhile, suggested that the Ukrainians were not decent stewards of the weapons: they didn't know how to take care of them, and they would deteriorate and turn into public hazards — "much worse than Chernobyl," the Russian Foreign Minister said at the time.

They said it was "not decent" for a Socialist soldier to have a capitalist girl friend.

Greenhalgh has declared that this estate is "not decent", and has offered it for sale to property developers.

My mum says, 'Oh, no, they're low class — they're not decent people.' But I like them".

Since you are not decent, I can even scold you without a qualm.

A hairdresser says she is proving people in Egypt who think a woman who works as a hairdresser is not decent wrong.

He tells me girls' skirts have become too short and it's not decent, and I do disagree.

Work that is not decent can produce significant adverse health effects through material and social deprivation and unsafe working conditions [ 5].

Being female could influence mobility of CHWs: two studies from Bangladesh reported that Shasthya Shebikas (CHWs) were seen as being "not decent" if they went out in the night [ 59, 60], particularly in rural areas [ 59].

Maertens I remember an anecdote when he had observed that P.C. Paardekoper when sunbathing with his torso naked, that this was not decent to appear like this, in front of the students, adding to his statement that his remarks were not from ethical but esthetical nature (Mgr. Maertens taught the course of ethics to the medical students).