My ardent flame has blinded me to the social decencies.

None the less, one did owe some social decencies to one's colleagues of the faculty.

The position of the two interdicted it to a couple honourably sensible of social decencies; and who were, be it added, kept apart.

Worse still, it will create conditions in which individual freedom and the social decencies of the democratic way of life will become impossible, almost unthinkable.