Noun, : The least you can expect from them is some respect for the decencies. ,to be able to afford the decencies. From Dictionary.com.
And Isabelle recounted what she had seen of Aline's establishment in St. Louis, with its total disregard of what Conny called the "decencies" of life. From Wordnik.com. [Together] Reference
In short, he did everything to outrage the decencies. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
Why, these cousins of hers hadn't the decencies of red. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
I am not battling for the luxuries of life, but I am for its decencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference
Thus were the decencies of the marriage bed taught to the rough fisherman. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
All the decencies in the world should sink before he thought her a traitor. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
But like other doctrinaires, Paul cannot, and will not, be swayed by common sense and decencies. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on the Presidential Races of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul] Reference
The very poor then, as now, were forced to content themselves with the barest decencies of life. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
Neither am I moved with certain courtly decencies, which esteem it flattery to praise in presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
"A great many of the ordinary decencies of life seem to be considered unnecessary aboard this ship.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
Choice is extended, not reduced, when everyone is guaranteed at least the minimum decencies of life. From Wordnik.com. [AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE NEW CONSTITUTION] Reference
Your writers said, "" India and the United States inherited ... the decencies of English governance. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Flirting With The Bomb] Reference
After three months in Katleean a white woman had come to stand for the cleanness and the decencies of life. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The dish was hounded down as something too utterly inconsonant with the culinary decencies of civilisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
Even in the cities baths were exceedingly rare, while in the country the very decencies of life were neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
No one, not starting with the theories of St. Jerome, let us say, on marriage and matter and the decencies of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
There is the insistence upon certain decencies and certain conformities which constitute what is known as morality. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
In principle I am for free speech, however, I believe there are certain civilised decencies which must be observed. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
'They may say what they will of duelling,' he continued, 'but it is the great preserver of the decencies of society. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
This is the essence of totalitarianism, a political order that recognizes no higher authority, no limits and no decencies. From Wordnik.com. [From King to Mugabe] Reference
The city seemed to cry: "I need a friendly monitor -- one who will point me out the decencies and compel me to adopt them.". From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
This same revolt against the decencies and conventions of our humanist civilization occupies a great part of present literature. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
And the beauty part: So long as we adhere to a few common decencies, we will be encouraged by our peers (and ignored by the authorities). From Wordnik.com. [My Tribe Can Beat Your Tribe] Reference
Northern armies are respectively able to read, or are otherwise personally familiar with the decencies and proprieties of civilized life. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She accompanied him in a tour through Germany; and most reprehensible was their conduct, at times, in defying the decencies of polite life. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Indeed, Hastings says the Western soldiers were victims of their own virtues, "imbued since birth with all the decencies of their societies.". From Wordnik.com. [SNAP JUDGEMENT: BOOKS] Reference
As Cooper puts it: "Her faults were, a trifling love of liquor, excessive filthiness, and a total disregard to all the decencies of language.". From Wordnik.com. [Women Behind Bars] Reference
She does not always surround herself with the pomp and pride of life, but she invariably hedges herself in with the thousand decencies and the pomp of privacy. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
A thousand decencies, amenities, reticences, graces, which no one thinks of until he misses them, are the traditional right of those who spring from such families. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
We ask you as men to insist that your servants acting as the local legislators of the District of Columbia, shall respect the common rights and decencies of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
I will treat him as an insane man, who was never taught the decencies of life, proprieties of conduct -- whose associations show that he never mingled with gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
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