decent fellow

collocation in English

meaningsofdecentandfellow

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decent
adjective
uk
/ˈdiː.sənt/us
/ˈdiː.sənt/
socially acceptable ...
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fellow
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfel.əʊ/us
/ˈfel.oʊ/
informal
a man, used especially in the past by people in a higher ...
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(Definition ofdecentandfellowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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My opinion is that he is a verydecentfellowas it is.
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And so is every other industrial worker adecentfellow, but the people who have the power forget to treat them decently.
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I quite approve of the humane motive of the governor of the prison who wants to remunerate adecentfellowa little better.
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I may be a verydecentfellowliving in a fairly select part of a town.
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He was adecentfellow, whom we knew very well.
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The ordinary workman is a verydecentfellow.
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Are friends or people in the local pub asked whether the chap is adecentfellow, or whether he drinks too much?
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If a boy got with adecentfellow, he taught him, but there was no training in the sense in which we have it to-day.
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He would not have been considered a verydecentfellowat his university if he had not.
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Since he is such adecentfellow, perhaps he is most charitably thought of as a good man fallen among ambitions.
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He is quite adecentfellow, actually, when one gets to know him.
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He is adecentfellow, but unfortunately his father becomes unemployed.
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I know the value of that organisation in at least softening the blow and perhaps encouraging thedecentfellowwho would naturally resent this unnecessary importuning.
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He is a verydecentfellow.
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But if the prospective tenant is adecentfellow, prepared to do the same as the sitting tenant, what does the landlord lose if he agrees to an exchange?
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He is adecentfellow.
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Life became intolerable for thisdecentfellow.
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Our four new mates who had been there for above 2 years were all jolly decent fellows.
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He was elected at some time because of the apathy of the very decent fellows.
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We accept the fact that they were decent fellows, but we cannot say they were not guilty of grave misconduct.
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