Clean
Clean adjective - Free from any trace of the coarse or indecent.
Usage example: only clean songs will be permitted for the performances on the last night of summer camp
Decent is a synonym for clean in honourable topic. In some cases you can use "Decent" instead an adjective "Clean", when it comes to topics like moral, chaste.
Decent
Decent adjective - Conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue.
Usage example: as decent and kind a couple as you could ever hope to meet
Clean is a synonym for decent in respectable topic. You can use "Clean" instead the word "Decent" as an adjective or a noun.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Mickler works is a clean and decent place, and the staff are invariably nice to 'Don Juan' (rather more than their by-the-book supervisor likes).
Source: Film / Don Juan DeMarco - Music, films, politicians were nice, clean and decent.
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Thought all movies were squeaky clean and decent in the olden days?
Source: Useful Notes / The Pre Code Era
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