1 Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.

2 His sense of decency forced him to resign.

3 His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.

4 On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.

5 She was a model of honesty and decency.

6 At least she had the decency to apologize.

7 Have you no sense of decency?

8 He might have had the decency to apologize.

9 They had transgressed the bounds of decency.

10 This policy goes against common precepts of decency.

11 His essential decency makes it impossible to dislike him.

12 They're just moral degenerates with no sense of decency.

13 He is someone who prizes truth and decency above all things.

14 It's only common decency to let her know what's happening .

15 You'd think he'd have the common decency to apologize for what he said.

16 They earn wages below the decency threshold set by the EU.

17 Is there no sense of decency left in this country?

18 Her behaviour showed a total lack of common decency .

19 He might have had the decency to let us know.

20 Nobody had the decency to inform me of what was planned.

21 Both were a generous extension of human decency.

22 The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.

23 The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.

24 A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.

25 Broadcasters have a responsibility not to offend against good taste and decency.

26 If they're going to charge people a fee, they ought to at least have the decency to tell them in advance.

27 The film was judged to offend against standards of public taste and decency.

28 All television companies accept the need to maintain standards of taste and decency .

29 Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.

30 We can only try to hold fast to the age-old values of honesty, decency and concern for others.

1 Your behaviour is an affront to public decency.

2 His sense of decency forced him to resign.

3 The film was banned on the grounds of public decency.

4 The Broadcasting Act allows ministers to proscribe any channel that offends against good taste and decency.

5 His sense of decency and fair play made him refuse the offer.

6 On Friday he showed neither decency nor dignity. It was an uncommon lapse.

7 A journalist should always live up to the ideals of truth, decency, and justice.

8 Governments are often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.

31 You can rely on their decency and good sense.

32 Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and decency.

33 One spark of decency and Jack was going soft.

34 He has a reputation for honesty and decency.

35 The prospect of censorship in cyberspace has raised fears and sparked debates over decency and privacy.

36 But politicians have borrowed decency from these words with such abandon, they are bankrupt.

37 Pepe has a lot in common with Boris, thought Ellis: they're both strong, cruel men without decency or compassion.

38 Miller observed that penal institutions' can not sustain their decency over an extended period of time.

39 Those who condescend to visit these miserable tenements can testify that neither health nor decency can be preserved in them.

40 She had made a gesture in the direction of decency by wearing a veil, behind which she sat disdainfully.

41 To confer the status of value upon excess and extremism is to bring these things back within the pale of decency.

42 News broadcasters who show pictures of dead bodies have no sense of decency.

43 Why couldn't he have had the decency just to be straight with her?

44 As a politician, she was a model of integrity and decency.

45 If they had any understanding or decency in them, they'd die and leave you in peace.

46 For example, if he had to smoke in her flat, he could at least have the decency to empty the ashtray.

47 Then they can not have what the larger community regards as the necessary minimum for decency ....

48 Governments are also often drawn into disputes about matters of public taste and decency.

49 Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens 

50 This did not surprise me, since one could see at a glance that Herr Bremann was a gentleman of great decency.

51 Yet, underneath all that show of sop and decency was a man utterly fixed on himself, on his own concerns.

52 When they met, they might even have the decency to paper the cracks.

53 That would have violated his, and the class's, sense of decency.

54 I had the decency to tell her often that I loved her; she smiled weakly, but seldom spoke.

55 Prosperity, tranquility, honesty, morality, decency(), normality and on-time airline arrivals do not make news.

56 I tried to hold on to a thread of decency and courage.

57 Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?

58 Until then, police practice involved turning a blind eye to minor breaches of public decency rather than embarking on lengthy prosecutions.

59 I think you should have the decency to tell him you are already married.

60 She would not visit her own family, except as a formality, and then as briefly as decency permitted.

61 Honesty, decency, good will have no place in this business of selling or murdering an image.

62 Along with them went the baggage of impartiality, high quality, good taste and decency.

63 If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen.

64 There are, after all, considerations of taste or, if that's too namby-pamby, of simple decency.

65 They had been covered with a square of spotted muslin, for decency she supposed.

66 Least of all from a creature like that, lost to all decency and proper codes of conduct.

67 Much more importantly, the Dodgers were always a rock of decency and consistency in a sea of disgusting behavior.

68 On the radio sports-talk shows, where the laws of decency seemingly failed to apply.

69 He borrowed money from me and didn't even have the common decency to pay me back.

70 Trepolov had some sense of decency and didn't go attacking the ball like some damned dervish.

71 A woman drove me to drink and I never had the decency to thank her. W.C. Fields 

72 It is at any rate possible that in her a certain ethical rightness and decency coexisted with aesthetic stiffness and suspicion.

73 You know she's got no sense of decency, not where you're concerned anyway.

74 He wanted to win in order to restore trust and decency, he said.

75 As gratified as I was by this display of loyalty and human decency, the picture was bleak.

76 She provided full meals and basic decency for her many children.

77 Lucy had the decency and zest of a boarding school prefect, the kind the Lower Third would swoon over.

78 He is a man of decency.

79 It was an affront to common decency.

80 Was decency such a fine thing after all?

81 It is common decency to give your seat to anyone in greater need.

82 Not to neglect decency, or cleanliness, for fear of falling into Nastiness.

83 If there is any decency in our government then having a policy of giving protection to people that we've wrongly determined not to be refugees is absolutely crucial.

84 He and his hind are the only representatives of decency combined with intelligence.

85 You'll get into trouble if you continue to behave without regard to decency.

86 Its many frank references to nudity and sexuality offended nineteenth - century notions of decency.

87 But after a few hours, a few weeks, you discern a steeliness and a deep ambition, alongside his decency.

88 Unfortunately, on Friday night he showed neither decency nor dignity.

89 'she might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner time.

90 Overcoming every reluctance and instinctive decency, he had let himself consider sex.

91 She was unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining - room had the decency of clean bareness.

92 Used for bricks and furring brick wall outside and coatings, natural stone material surface decoration of the facade waterproof anti-permeability, anti-fouling, the color, fight decency, etc.

93 If it come from on high(http://), with what decency do you fret and fume because it is not paid for in heavy cash?

94 Having or showing a contemptible , mean - spirited, or selfish lack of human decency.

95 Isaac Asimov set out his famous three laws of robotics in 'I, Robot,' thereby laying the foundation for our eventual robot overlords to show us some decency.

96 She railed against hypocrisy, pretentiousness and self - regard, while lauding modesty, fidelity, decency, and achievement.

97 Meretricious course of study drinks to China the intellectual that make merry " in order to fill civil with " , decency gives the literature of their the wording and purpose of what one writes.

98 Her dining - room had the decency of clean bareness.

99 It rests in the decency and compassion of our people.

100 In her profligate life, she lost all sense of decency.

101 Decency, there are sources of tourists are given priority , a recruiting and the high commission.

102 The puppet - show was performed with great regularity and decency.

103 There is, the curators aim to show, a lot more to Moore than monumental decency, despite his undergoing the national beatification which befell John Betjeman and has almost smothered Alan Bennett.

104 Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s beacon of decency, in London this week to celebrate his 90th birthday, spoke out against the “tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe”.

105 Surely if the woman had any decency at all, she'd have withdrawn at once.