decency

Example Sentences

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Josephine Ballon said criminalising such behaviour was the minimum that "we can do, because this also shows that we as a society, we have values, we have rules, we have human decency."

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

A: Ruth symbolizes what she herself expressed: decency.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Yet Leo found—his son tells us with eloquent understatement—that “some Germans managed to remain decent, when decency could be very dangerous.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

American politics has always produced figures eager to test the boundaries of decency.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

It was a tone that reminded him of Aunt Elizabeth, of views endorsed with an unapologetic, self-indulgent English decency.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie