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.
• His talent will live on for a long time, but the loss of his kindness and decency leaves a hole in our hearts.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2020
• But do not mistake this for a triumph of character or decency.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
• And look at the price LBJ paid for that act -- just the simple act of legislating decency.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2020
• Divisions can’t destroy decency, good neighbors don’t stay divided, kindness cannot be killed.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2020
• This bleak turn ties eerily back into Kim’s fundamental decency.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 June 2020
• Leah tells us about the lone woman who advocated for helping them, declaring that each one was someone’s son and deserved a bit of human decency.
  — Dan Sheehan, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• Eviction procedures, paused by human decency or government order across much of the country, are already lurching back to life.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 5 June 2020
• Over time communities will organize themselves according to their senses of decency and need.
  — Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
• Ms Ainsley identifies four key values that resonate with the new working class: family, fairness, hard work and decency.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The outrage about the lack of decency and the American double standard has now gone global in everyday life, including sport.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 1 June 2020
• Each was fined the equivalent of $3,750 for outraging public decency.
  — Fox News, 8 July 2020
• Facebook proved that users and advertisers aren’t that interested in how much the company harms democracy and decency.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 31 July 2020
• But the notion that DeGeneres’s warmth toward celebrities speaks to her fundamental decency does not merely miss the point of the allegations.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2020
• The theft was proof of the end of the civic decency that had reigned in the first months of the Covid era.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2020
• The guy didn’t even have the decency to tell her in person.
  — Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• But the thing that was so tough about that one is that no one even had the decency to pan us.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
• And Joe Biden's decency comes through and makes that -- takes that off the table.
  — ABC News, 2 May 2021
• If the person has any sense of decency, that should not be long.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• The night did see Trump at least tip his cap to reason and decency, in parts.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2020
• The life lessons learned: If your adorable co-worker is in love with you, have the decency to love them back.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• But against all of that is the deep vein of decency that grounds America.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• The telecast didn’t keep showing the tackle out of a sense of decency.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• They were also asked about whether Trump and Biden had a sense of decency.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• What's at stake here is the rule of law, human decency, and world order.
  — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• What has happened to you to have flown so far from decency and sanity?
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024