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Meanings of more decency in English

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Usage of more decency in English
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But the same hero complains with more decency, though in great pain:
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations / Also, Treatises On The Nature O...
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Yet even he had more decency and dignity than Donald Trump.
The Guardian
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They were clad with far more decency and decorum than was usual among the negro tribes.
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
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There is much more decency and good will in ordinary people around the world than commonly believed.
The Irish Times
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A whole regiment of you with no more decency than to pick on one man like this.
Captivating Mary Carstairs
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I'll have you behave with more decency.
A Set of Rogues / Namely Christopher Sutton, John Dawson, the Se...
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And really, Miss Goddard, I think you might manage to dress yourself with a little more decency.'
A Mummer's Wife
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But, thank heaven, she had more heart, more sensibility, more self-respect, more decency, than we allowed for.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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A Turk would have more decency.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
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It was carried on with more decency and impartiality than ever was known in so tumultuous, popular, and partial a court.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
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I should think you'd have more decency, when you're in such a state as this, than to come where I am.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
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He's not a bad sort: I shouldn't wonder if there were more decency in him than he'd care to get credit for.
Nightfall
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If they raise the salary to what it was, or even pay our house rent and taxes, I can live with more decency.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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We visited the cathedral, which, with more decency than in England, is open at all hours of the day, and is not exhibited for money.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
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