DECENCY in a Sentence
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41 example sentences for DECENCY, such as:
1. She was a model of honesty and decency.
2. Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.
3. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity.
4. We must obey the decencies and attend the funeral.
5. The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.
2. Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.
3. On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity.
4. We must obey the decencies and attend the funeral.
5. The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.
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Meanings and Examples of DECENCY
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decency
n. the quality of being polite and respectable
n. the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 And those who were so traitorous as not to believe should, at least, have the decency to keep their mouths shut.
2 And if Rhett had any decency he would realize they were true.
3 But then, that's what a man gets for marrying a Yankee woman-- no pride, no decency, always thinking about their own skins.
4 And Rhett Butler had never had the decency to conceal his relations with her, so it was obvious that he and no other must be that backer.
5 Sue had been the cause of her father's death, whether she intended it or not, and she should have the decency to control herself in front of the hostile neighbors.
6 Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth.
7 The men whose lives Rhett had saved attempted, out of decency and a sense of gratitude, to keep their women silent but they had little success.
8 But she was unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining-room, with its thin tablecloth on a long pine table, had the decency of clean bareness.
9 She permitted them to restore the divine decency of buttons.
10 And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty.
11 All summer long the family toiled, and in the fall they had money enough for Jurgis and Ona to be married according to home traditions of decency.
12 But they were all men who had given up and been counted out, while Jurgis was still in the fight, and had reminders of decency about him.
13 There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.
14 Why, Connie, I should trust your natural instinct of decency and selection.
15 After all, Michaelis had had the decency to turn away.
Example Sentence:
1 The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.
2 The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.
3 She was a model of honesty and decency.
4 On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity.
5 His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.
6 Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.
7 Broadcasters have a responsibility not to offend against good taste and decency.
8 You should have the decency to apologize for what you did.
9 Although surrounded by wild and profligate companions, she nevertheless managed to retain some sense of decency.
10 We must obey the decencies and attend the funeral.