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Sentence count:105+8Posted:2017-03-01Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: decentindecentdecentralizecomplacencyintelligence agencydeceitdeceivedeceaseMeaning: ['diːsnsɪ]  n. 1. the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality 2. the quality of being polite and respectable. 
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31 You can rely on their decency and good sense.
32 Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and decency.
33 One spark of decency and Jack was going soft.
34 He has a reputation for honesty and decency.
35 The prospect of censorship in cyberspace has raised fears and sparked debates over decency and privacy.
36 But politicians have borrowed decency from these words with such abandon, they are bankrupt.
37 Pepe has a lot in common with Boris, thought Ellis: they're both strong, cruel men without decency or compassion.
38 Miller observed that penal institutions' can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time.
39 Those who condescend to visit these miserable tenements can testify that neither health nor decency can be preserved in them.
40 She had made a gesture in the direction of decency by wearing a veil, behind which she sat disdainfully.
41 To confer the status of value upon excess and extremism is to bring these things back within the pale of decency.
42 News broadcasters who show pictures of dead bodies have no sense of decency.
43 Why couldn't he have had the decency just to be straight with her?
44 As a politician[sentencedict.com], she was a model of integrity and decency.
45 If they had any understanding or decency in them, they'd die and leave you in peace.
46 For example, if he had to smoke in her flat, he could at least have the decency to empty the ashtray.
47 Then they can not have what the larger community regards as the necessary minimum for decency ....
48 Governments are also often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.
49 Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens 
50 This did not surprise me, since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency.
51 Yet, underneath all that show of sop and decency was a man utterly fixed on himself, on his own concerns.
52 When they met, they might even have the decency to paper the cracks.
53 That would have violated his, and the class's, sense of decency.
54 I had the decency to tell her often that I loved her; she smiled weakly, but seldom spoke.
55 Prosperity, tranquility, honesty, morality, decency(sentencedict.com), normality and on-time airline arrivals do not make news.
56 I tried to hold on to a thread of decency and courage.
57 Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?
58 Until then, police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions.
59 I think you should have the decency to tell him you are already married.
60 She would not visit her own family, except as a formality, and then as briefly as decency permitted.
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