What's the difference between dandy and decent?

Dandy


Definition:

  • (n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
  • (n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
  • (n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
  • (n.) A dandy roller. See below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
  • (2) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
  • (3) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
  • (4) A child who had the Dandy-Walker syndrome along with her healthy twin sibling were followed regularly for a period of 2 years.
  • (5) Three cases of Dandy-Walker syndrome are described.
  • (6) The presenting diagnoses were Cogan's syndrome, Meniere's syndrome, Dandy's syndrome without hearing loss, or progressive sensorineural hearing loss without dizziness.
  • (7) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
  • (8) A review of serial computed tomography (CT) scans of 25 patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation revealed six patients with chronic downward transincisural herniation of the cerebrum after shunt decompression of the posterior fossa cyst or malfunction of a lateral ventricular drainage catheter, or both.
  • (9) In this series, one patient had aqueductal stenosis, four had agenesis of the corpus callosum, two had hydrocephalus, one had cerebral abiotrophy, and one (a 72-year-old man) had no additional defects and no symptoms from his Dandy-Walker syndrome.
  • (10) Two patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation first developed neurologic symptoms in adult life.
  • (11) Autopsy findings included intraphepatic biliary atresia, coarctation of the aorta of the infantile type, and the Dandy-Walker syndrome.
  • (12) Fielding, surrealist comic, painter and dandy, is recreating the glam rock 1970s.
  • (13) The differential diagnosis of a posterior fossa fluid collection in the fetus includes an enlarged cisterna magna, Dandy-Walker syndrome, or a posterior fossa cyst, each of which has differing implications for perinatal management.
  • (14) In the present report we describe a girl with mental retardation, Dandy-Walker malformation, craniofacial anomalies, cardiac defect, and ovarian dysgenesis associated with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 2.
  • (15) The Dandy-Walker malformation was found at autopsy in our patient.
  • (16) All 3 children had associated hindbrain deformities; two with Dandy-Walker malformation, the third with a Chiari II malformation.
  • (17) Clinical and complementary investigation revealed a malformation syndrome with many anomalies like those of trisomy 9p as well as Dandy-Walker cyst and Hirschsprung disease not previously described in tetrasomy 9p.
  • (18) A rare case is reported of Dandy-Walker cyst of the posterior fossa with intracystic chronic hemorrhage.
  • (19) Three cases were associated with other congenital anomalies: intracranial angioma, Dandy Walker Syndrome and Klippel-Trenauncy Syndrome.
  • (20) An infant had a giant congenital nevus, neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM), and a Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain.

Decent


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.
  • (a.) Free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.
  • (a.) Comely; shapely; well-formed.
  • (a.) Moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Essien, by the way, has been decent so far, other than the error just mentioned.
  • (2) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (3) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
  • (4) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
  • (5) Or we publish only with decent publishers, who believe that books are meant to be read and not simply profited from.
  • (6) Working people want trade policy that supports good jobs and decent wages.
  • (7) Doing the decent thing has guaranteed them an avalanche of applause when next they play at Goodison - in blue or red."
  • (8) It is, in fact, quite astonishing to find British housebuilders and planners going along with the design and construction of such decent new homes.
  • (9) They’d both had decent jobs, but because they didn’t have rich parents, they couldn’t get a big enough deposit to buy a house.
  • (10) If the billions that have been thrown at this programme had been invested in providing teachers with decent, evidence-based training which is “on-the-job”, then standards would have sky-rocketed and we would be vying with the best education systems in the world, such as those in Finland and Singapore.
  • (11) Eddie Howe’s team had decent spells of possession but they could not create anything of clearcut note and Petr Cech reached his heavily signposted milestone as the Premier League’s clean-sheet king without needing to make a serious save.
  • (12) M&S does have a decent alternative use for some of their spare space – food.” About 10 years ago, M&S cut back the amount of space devoted to food in a handful of stores.
  • (13) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.
  • (14) I have to say I think Iran are the poorest team I've seen so far – Nigeria were dreadful in that game but you got the sense that at leas they were a half-decent team playing badly.
  • (15) 8.54pm GMT Somen Tchoyi, who once looked a decent prospect at WBA before being released last year and failing to impress during trials at Wolves and Birmingham, has pitched up in the Bundesliga, where Augsburg have just taken him on.
  • (16) We should have a decent enough budget to put together a squad capable of challenging towards the top, or at least putting up something of a fight in games.
  • (17) His free-kick was decent, he whipped the ball around the ball, but it was half-cleared before it could creep inside the far post.
  • (18) 12.44am BST Ah, here's @NotCoachTito, sitting somewhere idly wondering what it's like in Fenway tonight...actually, he may have a decent idea of the atmosphere.
  • (19) He’s the kind of self-styled intellectual journalist in politics who caused so much trouble in 20th century politics, not a bad man, decent enough in his way, but not as smart as he thinks he is, vain with it.
  • (20) Agroecology guarantees land to peasants, species diversity, decent work and food sovereignty, among other principles.