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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s about the hope for decency, but again, told with fresh, original eyes.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Sep. 2022
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His John Wick was a savage badass looking into the abyss…with a quiver of decency.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2023
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Sadly, Wallis doesn’t have the decency to feel ashamed about that.
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Mark Judge,
Washington Examiner,
9 Jan. 2024
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Still, the deeper through line is their decency, the instinct to forgive and go forward.
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Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2023
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At least Jack has the decency to drop her off by the airport instead of whatever Quentin told him to do.
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Marlow Stern,
Rolling Stone,
11 Dec. 2022
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There are deep veins of decency and love and compassion.
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Ali Martin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 Feb. 2024
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Mine is fractures with enough decency to come packed with straws and napkins.
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Kb Brookins,
Chron,
22 July 2022
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Didn’t even have the decency to face the music with an angry electorate that doesn’t wanna go.
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Laura Johnston,
cleveland,
26 Aug. 2022
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Common decency and common sense are on that side, on your — our — side.
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Gordon Monson,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
1 June 2022
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In a fury that has been building up, Curtis tells Cary off, starting what may well be Cary’s slow climb back to decency at the end of the series.
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Matthew Gilbert,
BostonGlobe.com,
3 Aug. 2023
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But the world was willing to overlook those glitches in human decency if there was work to be done and money to be made.
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Curbed,
17 Mar. 2022
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That win against Arkansas felt like a net loss for decency.
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Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com,
al,
26 Feb. 2023
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To both of my parents the actor exuded charm, grace and decency.
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Jason L. Riley,
WSJ,
11 Jan. 2022
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People spoiling for a fight are not put off by facts, any more than by common decency.
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Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2024
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What all these famous men have in common is a lack of basic decency towards the women in their lives.
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Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
26 July 2023
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Their job is to dig into the team’s issues, but common decency must remain at the forefront.
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Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Mar. 2023
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Programmers went back to the drawing board, adding more filters for decency into the code.
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Mark Bergen,
The Atlantic,
5 Sep. 2022
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Likewise, Obi-Wan’s innate sense of decency gets a foil in Reva a.k.a.
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Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 May 2022
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May God bless us with four more years of Joe Biden’s leadership, his decency and his decorum.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Mercury News,
16 Jan. 2024
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