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Significados de decency (decencies) en inglés

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The quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.

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Uso de decencies en inglés
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Even in the midst of war certain decencies needed to be observed.
A clash of kings
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To live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman!
Persuasion
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The decencies of debate ceased to be observed on either side.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
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On such a trip some of the common decencies of existence are dropped.
Man-Size
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It was a painful spectacle, a lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization.
Americans and Others
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The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies.
A Preface to Politics
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She violated its decencies without being at all aware of it.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
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Pride went down before it, and reticence, and decencies of self-respect.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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For years you've done your best against the decencies of life.
Mr. Standfast
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He's on the jump, and hasn't much fancy for the decencies of life.
The Man in the Twilight
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The decencies are observed in word, however violated in fact.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
12
Ethics is the rules of the game, the decencies of the struggle for existence.
Stories from Everybody's Magazine
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She has no sense of the decencies-the-the-thehospitalityof existence.
The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
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But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
Elizabeth and Her German Garden
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He knew nothing of the every-day decencies of civilized people.
The Lost Prince
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The preservation of our position as a class depends on our observing certain decencies.
The Patrician
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