What's the difference between decent and okay?

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.

Okay


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you design something for a “beneficiary”, it may seem okay not to involve them centrally in the process.
  • (2) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
  • (3) From my understanding, at this point we are okay.” Waco Police spokesperson William Swanton speaks at a news conference early Thursday after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, near Waco, Texas.
  • (4) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
  • (5) Against Feyenoord we could think, ‘Okay, it’s a different profile of football but today against a typical Premier League team, ‘Micky’ could perform this way.
  • (6) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (7) Everyone's okay it looks like, and it's not like Jackson needs it.
  • (8) He pauses a beat, and laughs, "Okay, I guess I have had my best revenge!"
  • (9) Blount gets them three on first down, the Patriots look like they're trying to take my advice here, and on second down Brady throws to (okay I'm going to blatantly cut-and-paste this one) Michael Hoomananawuni for15 yards.
  • (10) 2.58am BST Spurs 55-32 Heat, 7:46 remaining, 2nd quarter Okay.
  • (11) With the stodge and results-first defensiveness of the Verbeek and Osieck interregnums out of the way, it is finally okay to like to the Socceroos again.
  • (12) People who are building a service which I pay for with my privacy or money I'm quite okay with.
  • (13) Ray Allen got knocked about on that play but he seems okay.
  • (14) The Tigers will have to settle for a field goal... 2.39am GMT Florida State 3-14 Auburn, 11:09, 2nd quarter Nick Marshall and Tre Mason combine to get to the 50 and a first down (okay Marshall only got them one yard, but he helped!).
  • (15) I had to give myself permission to be okay with bottle-feeding for nutrition and still breastfed Layla for comfort, for both our sakes.
  • (16) 11.27pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 8th Okay, you can go to your bullpen but don't go full-Joe Maddon on us, Matheny.
  • (17) Email from Resins.Man, showing us it's always okay to be sentimental when it comes to baseball games i've only ever been to one baseball game........ ....at Fenway Park back in '79, and I remember it just like David Lengels photo, pillars, overhanging roof, pitch like a widescreen slot.
  • (18) Well, okay, maybe not for Don Zimmer, but world peace for like 99.999% of us.
  • (19) Megan Carpentier: I hoard SPF 70 like liquid gold I’m white even by the standards of white people: not only did I earn the nickname Caspar growing up (long before I went goth, thanks for asking), but in the summer of 1998, which I spent studying in Munich, three random Germans stopped me on the streets over July and August to ask if I was feeling okay because I was so pale.
  • (20) Every now and then I get wistful for when I was just a consumer of games because I can never have that back, but fortunately the love of the work is strong enough that I’m okay with that, and I’ve played so many life-changing games because I’m seeking them through the lens of a developer.