decency

Example Sentences

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In October 2025, a 67-year-old retiree from Philadelphia sent an email to the Department of Homeland Security pleading for basic decency in how they carried out a high-profile asylum case.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

"She was interested in the world around her and made the most of life. There was a depth to her, she led her life with decency and integrity," Susan Everard wrote.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

“And reminds us that decency is a superpower.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

Pop icon Elton John on Friday accused the publisher of two UK tabloids of "abhorrent" privacy invasions "outside even the most basic standards of human decency" as he testified at London's High Court.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Should she speak to him? try to bring him back to a sense of decency? remind him of where he was? of what fatal mischief he might do to these poor innocents?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley