respectable

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as in honorable
following the accepted rules of moral conduct cheating is not a respectable thing to do under any circumstances

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as in decent
of a level of quality that meets one's needs or standards the artwork that we commissioned from the muralist turned out to be respectable but was not quite what we had hoped for

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“Respectable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/respectable. Accessed 11 Dec. 2023.

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