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.
• A lot of it is just common sense and decency.
  — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
• If the person has any sense of decency, that should not be long.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2022
• Now is the time to show up, stand up, speak up for human decency.
  — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
• 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
• The theives don't have the common decency to eat the bulbs.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
• While these guests at least had the decency to ask many—many—others don't.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 14 Nov. 2025
• Having the decency to care about those who struggle in this world.
  — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2021
• 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
• But at least have the decency, honor, a little bit of courage.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 13 June 2017
• What's at stake here is the rule of law, human decency, and world order.
  — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• 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
• What has happened to you to have flown so far from decency and sanity?
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
• Spencer Cox ran on decency and is passing up the chance to be decent.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2021
• And just as a matter of human decency.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
• His talent will live on for a long time, but the loss of his kindness and decency leaves a hole in our hearts.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 30 June 2020
• 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
• 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
• In our view, these statements focused on a high school student cross the line of decency.
  — Rob Tornoe, Philly.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• At least the knife-wielding maniacs have the decency to keep their mouths shut.
  — James Breakwell, Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2018
• This is not the way — to have a loss like this with no integrity, no decency, no loving.
  — Keith Daniels, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
• In our view, these statements, focused on a high school student, cross the line of decency.
  — Jaclyn Reiss, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• And Joe Biden's decency comes through and makes that -- takes that off the table.
  — ABC News, 2 May 2021
• Sadly, Wallis doesn’t have the decency to feel ashamed about that.
  — Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• His anomalous body lacked decency.
  — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026