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Meanings of decency in English
Usage of decency in English
1
I was a model of decency and stability until a year ago.
2
The law frames pornography as an issue of obscenity, decency and morality.
3
At bottom every faith is a form of instruction in common decency.
4
You have insulted her in public, and in the name of decency-
5
If Nugent suffered from anything, in those early days, it was decency.
6
She was the spirit of hope and love, and decency, to them.
7
Others were wearing the minimum for decency: many barefoot, many more bare-chested.
8
Last week I gave you one more chance to wash in decency.
9
Society is held together by the natural decency in man, by fellow-feeling.
10
The only two who behaved with natural decency were Bellew and Sarle.
11
No heart, no soul, no feelings, no sense of decency or values.
12
Each was reassured of the old basis of 'decency' in the other.
13
But the same hero complains with more decency, though in great pain:
14
To go outside of all standards of decency like a common strumpet.
15
In common decency he had to talk to her at the dinner-table.
16
When I asked, at least Norman had the decency to look embarrassed.
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Decency through the time
Decency across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common