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sense of decency

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meanings of senseand decency


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sense
noun
uk /sens/ us /sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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decency
noun
uk /ˈdiː.sən.si/ us /ˈdiː.sən.si/
behaviour that is good, moral, and acceptable ...
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Examples of sense of decency


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It is exemplary not just for the customary academic merits of meticulous research and theoretical acumen, but also for its humanity, for its wonderful senseofdecency and detail.
That will reinforce a senseofdecency and respect for others.
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This legislation operates against the senseofdecency and fair play.
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It is not aimed at the people who committed those monstrous atrocities, which everybody with a senseofdecency must view with unspeakable anger.
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Shame, a senseofdecency, ought to restrain them.
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In them all senseofdecency is completely absent.
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It cannot require them to conform to policy; it must trust to their senseofdecency and readiness to accept majority decisions.
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They have no senseofdecency where the treatment of animals is concerned.
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They have at least got some senseofdecency.
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A power struggle is going on uninhibited by any senseofdecency, and parliamentary democracy is being given no chance to develop seriously.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Where is the senseofdecency and where is any modicum of acceptable business ethics.
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Perhaps they have not a senseofdecency.
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Apart from the gigglers opposite, have they no senseofdecency with regard to democracy?
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The decision was based on no logic, common sense or senseofdecency.
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It is an absolute outrage to our senseofdecency and fair play.
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How is it possible for any senseofdecency or morality, let alone comfort, to remain with the occupant?
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I call it history and a senseofdecency.
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One might have thought that, out of a senseofdecency or fraternity, he would grace us again with his presence tonight.
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He loses his senseofdecency and respect for his own colleagues when he says that.
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I consider that very damaging to the senseofdecency which honorable men and women try to maintain.
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