How to Use decency in a Sentence

decency

noun

• Have you no sense of decency?
• If you're going to be late, please have the decency to call and let me know.
• Decency, not fear of punishment, caused them to do the right thing.
• He had been taught to observe the ordinary decencies.
• Sending aid to the victims was simply a matter of common decency.
• The theft was proof of the end of the civic decency that had reigned in the first months of the Covid era.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2020
• The guy didn’t even have the decency to tell her in person.
  — Al Pacino, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
• But the thing that was so tough about that one is that no one even had the decency to pan us.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2022
• And Joe Biden's decency comes through and makes that -- takes that off the table.
  — ABC News, 2 May 2021
• If the person has any sense of decency, that should not be long.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• The night did see Trump at least tip his cap to reason and decency, in parts.
  — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2020
• The life lessons learned: If your adorable co-worker is in love with you, have the decency to love them back.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024
• In the middle of this war zone, there is this island of hope and love and decency.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2019
• And that is to return this country to a sense of decency.
  — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
• But against all of that is the deep vein of decency that grounds America.
  — Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Feb. 2024
• The telecast didn’t keep showing the tackle out of a sense of decency.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• They were also asked about whether Trump and Biden had a sense of decency.
  — Russell Blair, courant.com, 22 Oct. 2020
• What's at stake here is the rule of law, human decency, and world order.
  — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Spencer Cox ran on decency and is passing up the chance to be decent.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2021
• His talent will live on for a long time, but the loss of his kindness and decency leaves a hole in our hearts.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 July 2020
• All the extra eyes have left coaches foaming at the mouth to teach Deion and the Buffs a lesson in decency.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Having the decency to care about those who struggle in this world.
  — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• Certainly by the decency of the guards...that many were quite friendly and all of them were just and cordial.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Nov. 2021
• The courts in each case invited Congress to amend the decency act.
  — Author: Tom Jackman, Mark Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• It’s about the hope for decency, but again, told with fresh, original eyes.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2022
• At least Lachy has the decency to return Zeus watch — how kind! — while ratting out Dionysus in the process.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Sep. 2024
• His John Wick was a savage badass looking into the abyss…with a quiver of decency.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• For Ken Minogue, decency was not just a way of doing things, but also the point of doing them.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2021
• Thoughtful and decent people learn to keep their thoughts and their decency to themselves, or limited to a very small circle of friends.
  — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
• Even a single selfless act would be a powerful reminder that humanity’s capacity for decency and kindness can prevail even in the darkest times.
  — Todd L. Pittinsky, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025