decency
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Before I’m going to serve you a history lesson, let’s at least start with decency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
In June, a criminal court in Qom reportedly found Ahmadi and eight members of her band and production team guilty of charges including "offending public decency" through the publication of "obscene and indecent material".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Its defining achievement is ordered liberty: suspicion of ideological conceit, faith in common decency, respect for tradition and a preference for gradual change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
In a final confrontation, the 62-year-old Pat takes a stand for decency and her own generation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
He spoke very well about the decency and comradeship natural to animals.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Nor, in many cases, are they accorded the simple decencies that are part of formal employment.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
It’s all rather consoling in an era where . . . well, we shouldn’t ever take such decencies for granted.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2019
By refusing to recognize the virtues of others, or even to observe the ordinary decencies, he succeeds only in diminishing himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2018
We don’t like sanctimony, nor do we like meeting people who think they are too good to observe the proprieties of common decencies.
From Time ● Feb. 2, 2012
They could see the pro- ' cessional clerics busy about the decencies of death, and the twinkling knights standing motionless, and the people’s heads, like baskets of coconuts, round the outside of the square.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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