decency

Example Sentences

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Choosing a hero from a sample that large is “truly an art, not a science,” Schulman said, but Norman, like Gladden, possessed an “incredible decency and humanity that really makes you just root for them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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

“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