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Decency
DE'CENCY, n. [L. to be fit or becoming; Gr. to be good, or fit for.]
1. That which is fir, suitable or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form, in social intercourse, in actions or discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony. It has a special reference to behavior; as decency of conduct; decency of worship. But it is used also in reference to speech; as, he discoursed with decency.
Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
From all her words and actions.
2. Suitableness to character; propriety.
3. Propriety in speech; modesty; opposed to ribaldry, or obscenity.
Want of decency is want of sense.
It may be also used for propriety of speech, opposed to rudeness, or disrespectful language; and for propriety in dress, opposed to raggedness, exposure of nakedness, filthiness, etc.
decency appears in definitions for these words:
Becomingness Brave Chastise Clothes Decency Decentness Decorum Disparage Disparagement Immodest Indelicacy Ludicrous Malapert Malapertness May Modesty Nudity Obscene Outrage Outrageous Prettily Prettiness Profligate Profligateness Salutation Seemliness
Becomingness Brave Chastise Clothes Decency Decentness Decorum Disparage Disparagement Immodest Indelicacy Ludicrous Malapert Malapertness May Modesty Nudity Obscene Outrage Outrageous Prettily Prettiness Profligate Profligateness Salutation Seemliness
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