Decency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being decent
• behaviour that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability
• behaviour or appearance that avoids impropriety or immodesty
• the requirements of accepted or respectable behaviour
• things required for a reasonable standard of life
• conformity to the prevailing standards of what is right
• The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
• That which is proper or becoming.
• the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality
• the quality of being polite and respectable

Words related to DECENCY

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Words that contain DECENCY

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How to use DECENCY in a sentence

• Luxury, ambition, revenge, vanity, recklessness of decency, open rebellion, disgrace them in the sight of all men.
• He would be held by no scruples of conscience, no laws of friendship or decency.
• He advised me, for my own sake, to look out for another wife, as soon as decency would allow.
• Truth, no less than decency, requires that the event in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents.
• Smith confesses that there is, or even merely a personal Deity at all, some sort of common decency in speaking of Him should surely be preserved.
• The extension of religion had little to do with it, for the Romans had the decency to keep their gods to themselves and never slaughtered in the name of Jove.
• Their clothes answer the purposes neither of comfort nor decency.
• He had been captured, withered, cast aside, by a tribe that had not even had the decency to grant his memory the kindness of an excuse.
• She was so affectionate and cordial, and seemed so really anxious for him to stay, that he could not in common decency hurry back to town quite so soon as he had intended.
• Fry was a Quaker and a Protestant, did not matter to him, provided she could assist in raising this debased little colony into something like orderly life and decency.
• If a man will sin against common decency, morality and social codes, he will sin against his wife.
• If they raise the salary to what it was, or even pay our house rent and taxes, I can live with more decency.
• The more exactly this proceeding outrages decency, the better it is liked.
• At the same time a sense of decency forbids Communion on two accounts.
• Nothing can promote this End more than a strict Preservation of Decency.
• Nothing has more contributed to banish it from a married State, than too great a Familiarity, and laying aside the common Rules of Decency.
• On the whole, I think there is simplicity and decency, with a degree of ornament that destroys neither.
• That shot, Sir, which he thus kindly informed us was coming, that we might stand out of the way, or prepare ourselves to fall by it and die with decency, has now been received.
• She had in her some tincture of the old nineteenth century, which loved the decency of small, quiet things.
• Even in such a wretched state of existence, ornaments had their charms with this female, though the decency of covering was wholly disregarded.
• But it is all right to be grateful to God for having a sense of decency, just as you may be grateful for having a sense of beauty.
• The most compelling factor making for dignity and decency in this border-country is the little band of red-coated riders, scarcely a thousand in number.
• The small page remained at his post on the carriage step, but spoke never a word, and Leander could not with decency question him, much as he would have liked to do so.
• From motives of decency I here omit describing the expedients they put in practice for satisfying their inordinate desires.
• A cotton cloth, barely enough for purposes of decency, is tied between the legs, the ends being allowed to hang down in front and behind.
• They have regarded the two objects of decency and comfort.
• The choice of furniture, like the choice of clothes, is left to be adjudged by the rules of decency and usefulness, but never by the suggestions of shew.
• He was angry because common decency prevented him from expressing his opinion.

Similar words containing CEN without suffix cy and without prefix de

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