Example sentences for: decency

How can you use “decency” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Optimists called the penalty stiff and predicted that it would restore some standard of decency to the sport.

  • By extension, the mayor has the right to close down an art exhibit if it offends his sense of public decency.

  • As in the La Promesse , the point is to show how capitalism is fundamentally at odds with human decency.

  • His case against feminist Holocaust studies can be reduced to three main objections: 1) Alter's argument, made with less subtlety; 2) a somewhat crankish concern that the "object of such exercises" as feminist Holocaust scholarship is "to sever Jewish women, in their own minds, from their families as well as from the larger Jewish community"; and 3) the sense that such treatment violates taste, decorum, and "human decency."

  • Clinton has pushed the Communications Decency Act and the V-chip because he cares more about being "family friendly" than about protecting free speech.


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