Word: decentered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people...
...great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ... It is refreshing to read again & again your words "... Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free...
...Decent Character. His father was a bluff, warmhearted German-Jewish immigrant who had achieved his principal ambition-to become an American. Julius Oppenheimer had also made a very considerable success as a Manhattan textile importer: the Oppenheimers had a country house at Islip, N.Y., a sunny, nine-room apartment on Riverside Drive with three Van Gogh originals hanging in the living room. Julius doted on his son, took him to Europe four times and asked only that the boy be "a decent character...
...life," said the Hungarian Count who has lost his huge estates, as he sat darning his seeks in an Arlberg farmyard. "In me you behold the only decent-living Hungarian ... I have never made love to a woman behind her husband's back ... I have never had an 'affair.' I have always done it correctly...
sublimation. Harnessing an Iddish desire into a decent disguise (e.g., taking out an unconscious sexual or aggressive drive in work, play...