| 单词 | decency |
| 释义 | de·cen·cy 1. archaic a. < his discourse on the scaffold was full of decency and courage — David Hume †1776 > b. < no hundred-headed Riot here we meet, with Decency and Law beneath his feet — Robert Burns > 2. < only doctors and nurses have the decency to wear masks — Justina Hill > : decent quality, behavior, dress, or deportment : decorum, propriety, modesty < aid to the victims was simply a matter of common decency > : conformity to standards of taste, propriety, or quality < the first story of any real decency that I ever wrote — Arnold Bennett > 3. < the act was a gross violation of decency > — usually used in plural < the decencies of normal controversy … have been disregarded and men have been publicly criticized — Vannevar Bush > 4. a. < enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth — Oscar Wilde > b. decencies plural < did not provide her … children with the decencies justified by their inheritance — J.D.Wade > 5. a. b. decencies plural |
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