decency• Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and decency.• It is at any rate possible that in her a certainethical rightness and decencycoexisted with aesthetic stiffness and suspicion.• If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen.• He borrowed money from me and didn't even have the commondecency to pay me back.• They had been covered with a square of spottedmuslin, for decency she supposed.• Honesty, decency, good will have no place in this business of selling or murdering an image.• As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and humandecency, the picture was bleak.• On the radio sports-talk shows, where the laws of decency seemingly failed to apply.• Is there no sense of decency left in this country?• Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damneddervish.• I think you should have the decency to tell him you are already married.• You can rely on their decency and good sense.
common/human/public decency• As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and human decency, the picture was bleak.• Until then, police practice involved turning a blind eye to minorbreaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthyprosecutions.• Both were a generousextension of human decency.