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Everyone is entitled to be treated with basic decency and respect.

Indeed, they view us as children who can never adhere to the standards of civility and decency to which they hold other groups.

And equal to Bunning in decency, honesty, fullness of thought, and forwardly straight talk was Rick Robinson.

Faith is decency… if I were a cow I would be wearing a bra.

To view these nudes is not quite to abet evil, but it is to undermine decency.

A feeling of pity for mademoiselle—perhaps of no more than decency—now overcame Marius.

Those required to sustain life and preserve decency, besides other things to maintain her in her social condition.

Then the talk fell into decency after the regulation merriment had greeted Mr. Preston's closing effort.

Sure, every young man with a spark of decency in him must have felt as generous as yourself at some time or other in his life.

But decency, the behaviour of a gentleman, to act as a gentleman under every circumstance—that is a kind of religion with me!

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to decency, such as: civility, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, and good manners.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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