Definition of Decency

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Decency

The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

That which is proper or becoming.

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Decency Quotations

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
John McCain

Morals are private. Decency is public.
Rita Mae Brown

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

Decency Translations

decency in French is courtoisie
decency in German is Anstand {m}, Schicklichkeit {f}
decency in Spanish is decencia

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