decency
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You would respect the movie more if it stuck with its depraved indifference to civilized behavior, rather than attempting a death-bed conversion to decency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Labour MP Carolyn Harris was also overcome by emotion as she told MPs that "every day we see his decency and his courage shine through".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Even worse, the people ravaging the sport don’t even have the decency to pretend to like bowling.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
First, he argues that using evolving standards of decency could now lead to a different conclusion from the one the Supreme Court reached back when Kennedy was decided.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
“The connections that survive do so in compelling ways. … The depiction of the women in Jeanette and Carmen’s family is confident and layered, capturing their decencies and failings.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
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
Once a human being is dead there are people enough to provide the last decencies; perhaps it is so because only then can there be no question of further or recurring assistance being sought.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing decency
Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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My Brother Sam is Dead
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