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

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

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

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

He wouldn’t go over seventeen years without so much as a phone call, and if he died, he’d have the decency to do it somewhere where he could be found.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny