decency

[De·cen*cy]

The personal quality of decency is one of honesty, good manners, and respect for other people.

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The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

Noun
the quality of being polite and respectable

Noun
the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality


n.
The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

n.
That which is proper or becoming.


Decency

De"cen*cy , n.; pl. Decencies . [L. decentia, fr. decens: cf. F. d'82cence. See Decent.] 1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
Observances of time, place, and of decency in general.
Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense.
2. That which is proper or becoming.
The external decencies of worship.
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions.

The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

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Usage Examples

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

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