Слово "decency". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Mr. Cornwall (one of the Lords of the Treasury) treated the petition of the New- York Assembly with contempt, because that House, he said, consisted but of twenty-six members, which trifling number, he argued, could not with decency be put for the whole.

Was this Kohler’s one act of decency? Sparing lives?

You know how Germans sometimes seem to discover a sense of decency when they get to a classical country.

"But then that does away with honour and virtue and goodness and decency and everything," said Philip.

To a man who has gone through a great life struggle in one metropolis and tested all the phases of human duplicity, decency, sympathy, and chicanery in the controlling group of men that one invariably finds in every American city at least, the temperament and significance of another group in another city is not so much, and yet it is.

Where does decency start?

At least Harry had the decency to be ashamed of being good at it.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

He loved Siddhartha's eye and sweet voice, he loved his walk and the perfect decency of his movements, he loved everything Siddhartha did and said and what he loved most was his spirit, his transcendent, fiery thoughts, his ardent will, his high calling.