semi-decent in English

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      "form": "more semi-decent",
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    {
      "form": "most semi-decent",
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          "ref": "1996, R. Swinburne Clymer, The Rose Cross Order: History Repeats Itself, page 130",
          "text": "Now is it right to thrust even a semi-decent man in the same cell with a low drunken thief?",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Yew Baneberry, Bittersweet Nightshade, page 163",
          "text": "She wondered why she was having a semi-decent conversation with the woman who had spent several years plotting her death.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Elena Aitken, Nothing Stays In Vegas",
          "text": "I'm pretty sure teal was created for you. Only blondies with green eyes can look semi-decent in teal.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Sam Christer, The Camelot Code",
          "text": "Their money comes from a modest business that involves collecting, refilling and reselling inkjet cartridges and it's successful enough to afford a semi-decent four-bed in a semi-decent LA suburb.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lauren Oliver, Replica",
          "text": "He did a semi-decent job of concealing his disappointment.",
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        "Alternative form of semidecent"
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  "word": "semi-decent"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more semi-decent",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "most semi-decent",
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        "superlative"
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    }
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          "text": "Now is it right to thrust even a semi-decent man in the same cell with a low drunken thief?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Yew Baneberry, Bittersweet Nightshade, page 163",
          "text": "She wondered why she was having a semi-decent conversation with the woman who had spent several years plotting her death.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Elena Aitken, Nothing Stays In Vegas",
          "text": "I'm pretty sure teal was created for you. Only blondies with green eyes can look semi-decent in teal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Sam Christer, The Camelot Code",
          "text": "Their money comes from a modest business that involves collecting, refilling and reselling inkjet cartridges and it's successful enough to afford a semi-decent four-bed in a semi-decent LA suburb.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Lauren Oliver, Replica",
          "text": "He did a semi-decent job of concealing his disappointment.",
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  "word": "semi-decent"
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"semi-decent" meaning in English

Adjective