respectably
adverb /rɪˈspek.tə.bli/Definition
› in a respectable waySuitable and acceptableQuite good, or not very good › in a way that achieves a reasonable result: The car performs respectably on the motorway, although it is slightly noisy. It is a small-budget film, but it has done respectably at the box office.Enough
(Definition of respectably adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- -able suffix (WORTH BEING)
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