How to Use decency in a Sentence
decency
noun
- Have you no sense of decency?
- If you're going to be late, please have the decency to call and let me know.
- Decency, not fear of punishment, caused them to do the right thing.
- He had been taught to observe the ordinary decencies.
- Sending aid to the victims was simply a matter of common decency.
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The world can only hope his successor bears the mantle with the same grace and decency.
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Editorial Board Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (tns),
Star Tribune,
8 Sep. 2020
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To make the world a better place, and bring respect and decency to politics.
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Anchorage Daily News,
3 Oct. 2020
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Places that once seemed the oasis of calm and decency, now extolled as examples of chaos and misrule.
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Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
30 Sep. 2020
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Number one, letting your voices be heard now to appeal to the decency and honor of people who spoke what this process should be.
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CBS News,
20 Sep. 2020
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Last week, Democrats argued that our country needs a leader our children can look to as a model of decency.
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Kyle Whitmire,
al,
29 Aug. 2020
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Her claims that the work environment maintained by Helms was one of decency and respect were swiftly debunked.
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Nick Martin,
The New Republic,
21 Sep. 2020
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In conversation, both men projected decency, an Eagle Scout-ness of the soul.
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Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
23 Sep. 2020
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But my grandmother’s value of treating others with decency remains constant.
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Bruce Weinstein,
Forbes,
15 Oct. 2024
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This first broadcast was an alarming display of the president’s ability to rage through the rules—of decency and of decorum—with nobody and nothing to keep him in check.
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Mika Brzezinski,
NBC News,
30 Sep. 2020
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More women should hear her message of personal decency and nonconformity.
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Kate Bachelder Odell,
WSJ,
28 Sep. 2020
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The theft was proof of the end of the civic decency that had reigned in the first months of the Covid era.
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Tunku Varadarajan,
WSJ,
1 Nov. 2020
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The guy didn’t even have the decency to tell her in person.
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Al Pacino,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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But the thing that was so tough about that one is that no one even had the decency to pan us.
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Lacey Rose,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2022
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And Joe Biden's decency comes through and makes that -- takes that off the table.
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ABC News,
2 May 2021
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If the person has any sense of decency, that should not be long.
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Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2022
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The night did see Trump at least tip his cap to reason and decency, in parts.
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Rey Mashayekhi,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2020
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The life lessons learned: If your adorable co-worker is in love with you, have the decency to love them back.
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Tribune News Service,
The Mercury News,
19 July 2024
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But against all of that is the deep vein of decency that grounds America.
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Ali Martin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 Feb. 2024
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The telecast didn’t keep showing the tackle out of a sense of decency.
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Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2023
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They were also asked about whether Trump and Biden had a sense of decency.
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Russell Blair,
courant.com,
22 Oct. 2020
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What's at stake here is the rule of law, human decency, and world order.
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ABC News,
19 Feb. 2023
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Spencer Cox ran on decency and is passing up the chance to be decent.
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Paighten Harkins,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
10 Nov. 2021
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All the extra eyes have left coaches foaming at the mouth to teach Deion and the Buffs a lesson in decency.
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Tyler R. Tynes,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Sep. 2023
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Having the decency to care about those who struggle in this world.
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cleveland,
15 Jan. 2021
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At least Lachy has the decency to return Zeus watch — how kind! — while ratting out Dionysus in the process.
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Nick Caruso,
TVLine,
1 Sep. 2024
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