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Example sentences from the Web for decenciesFor he had no small gift of leadership, and he cared a good deal that it should count for the decencies of high-school life. John Wesley, Jr.|Dan B. Brummitt They are aware of some decencies, but not so deeply aware as to make them a matter of conscience. Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2|Nathaniel Hawthorne Here at the front door the decencies of leave-taking were observed. Berry And Co.|Dornford Yates The mail and express served politics and intellect; the freighters provided the comforts and decencies of life. The Last American Frontier|Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
pl nthe decencies those things that are considered necessary for a decent life standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society; proprieties Words nearby decenciesDecember, Decembrist, decemvir, decemvirate, decenary, decencies, decency, decennary, decennial, decennium, decent Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to decenciesdignity, modesty, honesty, decorum, civility, correctness, righteousness, propriety, courtesy, virtue, ceremoniousness, formality, etiquette, fitness, seemliness, appropriateness, respectability, conventionality, fittingness |