decency
noun
uk
/ˈdiː.sən.si/ us
/ˈdiː.sən.si/a sense of decency
[ + to infinitive ] She didn't even have the decency to apologize.
Meaning of decency in English
(Definition of decency from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
decency | American Dictionary
[ + to infinitive ] She didn’t even have the decency to apologize.
Examples of decency
decency
Both of them made a rather negative contribution to the decencies of public life.
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Our supporters look to us to protect those decencies, not to destroy them.
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Where does responsibility lie for this proposed outrage on the elementary decencies of our political and public life?
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To be poor is to be excluded not only from the graces but also from the very decencies of life.
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Let us have the decencies of life for these people.
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In fact, we were supposed to be quite indifferent to the decencies and amenities of life.
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They are the enemy, too, of the political decencies that we cherish in this country.
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If the normal decencies, restraints and courtesies of society are undermined, then in the end everyone loses.
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We must teach the decencies of life and preserve the family unit.
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We consider that the cost of burial should be reduced while, of course, preserving the decencies.
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We shall find it harder to hang on to those decencies if we clutter them up in a kind of package deal with manifest nonsense.
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There is the man who is often living in a small room with his family and unable to preserve the decencies of life.
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We cannot restore diplomatic relations with a country which ignores all the courtesies and the decencies of international life.
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Directly they show that they are prepared to observe the ordinary courtesies and decencies of international intercourse, we shall be prepared to meet them.
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The opinion must be expressed in a manner which preserves the ordinary decencies of controversy.
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Collocations with decency
decency
These are words often used in combination with decency.
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basic decency
Basic decency says that animals should be treated acceptably.
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common decency
The closest equivalent is probably 'common decency'.
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human decency
Treat hired labor with respect and human decency, as the valuable resource that it is (this also reduces worker turnover).
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Translations of decency
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edeb, dürüstlük, ahlak…
décence [feminine], décence, bienséance…
礼儀正（れいぎただ）しさ…
fatsoen…
slušnost, mravnost…
anstændighed…
kesopanan…
ความประพฤติที่ถูกทำนองคลองธรรม…
phép lịch sự…
przyzwoitość…
anständighet…
kesopanan…
der Anstand…
anstendighet [masculine], anstendighet, sømmelighet…
пристойність, порядність…
