decency

This can last for years, even decades, and despite hopeful moments of decency and respite from perceived indifference, bad actors will show you who they are time and again, if you let them.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Is the point that the football players we meet are the role models for decency?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Deputy prime minister Richard Marles described her as a "beacon of decency".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

"I expect every woman who serves to be treated with respect, with decency," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“God forbid a strong stomach should be all that stands between killing and not. There’s decency, Minya. Mercy.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Nor, in many cases, are they accorded the simple decencies that are part of formal employment.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2020

By refusing to recognize the virtues of others, or even to observe the ordinary decencies, he succeeds only in diminishing himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2018

And who is responsible for not enforcing those decencies?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2018

As stars, they have allowed the media and their fans total access: the po-faced decencies of 1953 have given way to complete self-exposure as these celebrities treat themselves as public property.

From The Guardian ● May 31, 2012

Once a human being is dead there are people enough to provide the last decencies; perhaps it is so because only then can there be no question of further or recurring assistance being sought.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya