Lexicographical Neighbors of Decentest
Literary usage of Decentest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Whitsuntide Annual for (1868)
"... he's one o' the quietest, decentest gents that comes to this house." I nodded
to express my entire satisfaction at the arrangement, and my perfect faith ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"... to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that have found a certain favour in
the eyes of even some of the very decentest people in the land. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"a work done in the very best and decentest manner, in which no offence whatever
was committed against the people's English; for he, JOHN NOKES, ..."
4. The Ordeal of Mark Twain by Van Wyck Brooks (1920)
"... to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that have found a certain favor in the
eyes of even some of the very decentest people in the land. ..."
5. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"... coarse grotesqueness to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that have found
a certain favor in the eyes of even some of the very decentest people in the ..."
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