decency
Example Sentences
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He did this not only for practical reasons—a humiliated foe is a dangerous foe—but out of decency.
That’s called simple human decency, and it’s something no amount of executive orders can teach.
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I have seen too much decency and moral courage, to believe that.
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Eichmann distanced himself not only from ordinary decency but empirical reality, “that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.”
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He didn’t have to make the gesture; but it’s a measure of his decency that he doffed his hat to her.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
