noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be/go beyond the bounds of credibility/reason/decency etc
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The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
human
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Both were a generous extension of human decency .
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As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and human decency , the picture was bleak.
public
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Governments are also often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency .
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Until then, police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ounce of sense/truth/decency etc
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Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that results depend on factors other than staff efficiency. - T. Baines, Oxford.
common courtesy/decency/politeness
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and decency .
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He borrowed money from me and didn't even have the common decency to pay me back.
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I think you should have the decency to tell him you are already married.
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You can rely on their decency and good sense.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and human decency , the picture was bleak.
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Honesty, decency , good will have no place in this business of selling or murdering an image.
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If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen.
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Is there no sense of decency left in this country?
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It is at any rate possible that in her a certain ethical rightness and decency coexisted with aesthetic stiffness and suspicion.
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On the radio sports-talk shows, where the laws of decency seemingly failed to apply.
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They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin, for decency she supposed.
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Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish.