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.
• Her decency will not be forgotten, least of all by those of us watching.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
• One can’t help but see the outlines of a case for Trump, the insulter-in-chief, in the disdain for basic decency.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2019
• Some rushed to cast the drama in terms of decency—a father, understandably, rescuing his child from a prison term.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• Baker suggests responding with grace, decency, and fact.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
• Today, our nation and our world has lost a leader who embodied dignity and decency, grace and goodness.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
• Jesse, on the other hand, was compassionate, but always uncertain of his decency.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2019
• What is most human—our vulnerability, our decency, indeed our very souls—is under great threat.
  — Arthur Kleinman, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
• Ed's quiet decency, inspired intellect, and generous spirit have touched many lives, and will not soon be forgotten.
  — courant.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• On the other, the way most Brazilian clubs have been run in recent decades is hardly a model of sustainability and decency anyways.
  — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
• Anyone that normalizes gun violence, white supremacy, putting kids into cages, his general lack of decency and respect for anyone else.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
• Speech from politicians is officially exempt from the platform's fact checking and decency standards, the company has clarified, with a few exceptions.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2019
• 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
• And that is to return this country to a sense of decency.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Spencer Cox ran on decency and is passing up the chance to be decent.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025