The Oulahans were always dacent people--dacent people, my lord.
Now there was a lass on the rock, and I think she had little to do, for it was nae place far dacent weemen; but it seems she was bonny, and her and Tam Dale were very well agreed.
You can never show your face again with dacent folk.
It was a sorry sicht, I can tell ye, to see a dacent lass ruined wi' siller.
It was a very dacent funeral-procession, my dear Terence, and your father must have been delighted to see himself so well attinded.
My two sisters are both to be spliced to young squireens in the neighbourhood; it appears that they only wanted for a dacent town gown to go to the church in.
The reader is already acquainted with the allusion made by Maura to the "dacent and purty girl that hasn't a stain upon her name, or upon the name of one of her seed, breed, or generation.
Why the cyar-man was a dacent boy, an Mister Morley axed him how was thrade, an' av he was busy.
He had two sthrappin' daughters, as nice, dacent young girls as ye'd see in a summer's day.
He went out in the hookers an' injoyed himself all to pieces, a dacent sthrip of a boy, but wid no more brains than a scalpeen (pickled mackerel).
The carman who drove me hither said "The Bodyke boys are dacent fellows, but they must have their sport.
It's his evidence that's bringin' this dacent ould man from his family to a gaol, this miserable evenin'.
There's many a dacent boy would think himself well off, to get the likes of it for his reward.
May be they have a son married to his daughter, I dunno, but she was a very dacent lady.
There's none else that can do it so well as meself, and when they came back his lordship gave me two shillin', and he's a vera dacent man.
Come up here, you little sartor, till we get a dacent view of you.
Keep asy, you vagrant, an' the dacent boy not dead yet.
Let the neighbors about us here examine the body, in ordher to see whether it mightn't be possible that the dacent boy came by his death from somebody else's hand than his own.
We can't be angry wid the dacent woman," observed old Reillaghan, "in regard that she came to show her friendship and respect.
Faith, the dacent strain was always in the same family.
I 'm a dacent Catholic, as Father O'Houlihan will tell yez, if yez ask him.
Only dacent people like me comes from the Vale of Avoca.
He's a very dacent man, and looks the bodagh entirely.
The pillion's dacent enough; but the jauntin'-car!
I palavered her at the rate of a hunt, an' she ped me back in my own coin, withdacent intherest--but no whiskey!
I think, Misther O'Flaherty, it's a dacentoath as it stands.
My advice to him is to get married to some dacent nice girl, that id take the wildness out of him, and lay himself down to business.
So I shall get a dacent pension: a major's pension, and so much for a leg and arm.
At first there was something to do, for one could forage for food dacent to eat; but now I don't believe there is as much as an old hen left within fifteen miles, and as for ducks and geese, I have almost forgotten the taste of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dacent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
