dacent

After this, few or none joined it; for it is esteemed by no means "dacent" to do so after mass, because, in that case, the matter is ascribed to an evasion of the offerings; but those whose delay has not really been occasioned by this motive, make it a point to pay them at the grave-yard, or after the interment, and sometimes even on the following day -- so jealous are the peasantry of having any degrading suspicion attached to their generosity.

The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

‘Go on thin, and be quick with it; but don’t talk to dacent people about robbers any more.

The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

God bless your honour and good night! and may you find dacent quarters in the

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

"A man must be dacent to his ain blood," said he, and that was the last of it.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

Well, the king was lookin 'out in his dhrawin' room, for divarshun, whin the Waiver came in, but the Waiver purtended not to see him, and he wint over to a stone sait under the windy -- for you see there was stone sates all round about the place for the accommodation of the people, for the king was a dacent obleegin 'man, -- well, as I said, the

Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

_ -- And didn't I do my best to get dacent matches for all your little girls?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

_ -- Thank you, Timothy: the dacent drop is in you.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

"He will be marrying me, mother," said she; "I ken he will be coming to you soon, and -- and there will be no cutty-stool either," said she, "for he is a nice lad and dacent, if he will be a little game," maybe thinking of the stackyard.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

And instead of a dacent trousers hanging to his suspenders,

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various

It was near two years afther I lift home that I took the notion of going to Ameriky; me aunt advised me against going, but, whin she saw that me mind was set on it, she consinted, and did her best, poor woman, to sind me away lookin 'dacent and respectable.

Stories and Sketches Harriet S. Caswell