The quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality.
1 Even in the midst of war certain decencies needed to be observed.
2 To live no longer with the decencies even of a private gentleman!
3 The decencies of debate ceased to be observed on either side.
4 On such a trip some of the common decencies of existence are dropped.
5 It was a painful spectacle, a lapse from the well-ordered decencies of civilization.
6 The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies .
7 She violated its decencies without being at all aware of it.
8 Pride went down before it, and reticence, and decencies of self-respect.
9 For years you've done your best against the decencies of life.
10 He's on the jump, and hasn't much fancy for the decencies of life.
11 The decencies are observed in word, however violated in fact.
12 Ethics is the rules of the game, the decencies of the struggle for existence.
13 She has no sense of the decencies - the- the - the hospitality of existence.
14 But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies .
15 He knew nothing of the every-day decencies of civilized people.
16 The preservation of our position as a class depends on our observing certain decencies .
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