Usage of "public decency"

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Usage of public decency in English

But there is another-thepublic decency-whichit is our business to police. 
 Moral 

Or is it part of a broader debate about public decency? 
 The Guardian 

Although you know that thus public decency will be undermined. 
 Moral 

All sense of public decency, all regard for laws, human or divine, was lost. 
 Stories from Thucydides 

To film someone in public without permission goes against the UAE's strict public decency laws. 
 The South African 

No matter who the offender against public decency is he should be lodged in jail. 
 Nonsenseorship 

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. 
 The Guardian 

He now regarded the threatened creation of Peers as a gross insult to public decency. 
 Essays in Rebellion 

Well might the indignant Old Guard imagine that the end of public decency had come! 
 The Old Wives' Tale 

Northern Sudan is governed by Islamic law which includes restrictions on public decency, particularly for women. 
 Reuters 

Under the Raj, the British tried to ban hijras as a breach of public decency but inevitably failed. 
 The Guardian 

At least, he respected public decency. 
 What's Bred in the Bone 

Fancy,-butwe must not fancy such a scene at all, which would be an outrage on public decency. 
 The Second Funeral of Napoleon 

But the court has previously heard one of the sticking points relates to the charge of outraging public decency. 
 News.com.au 

To impose upon art the one rule of public decency is not to subject it, not to dishonor it. 
 The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert 

The Islamic court sentenced the youths to an unspecified number of lashes for "offending public decency", it said. 
 The Irish Times 

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Meanings of public decency in English