decency

  • 21decency — noun (plural cies) Date: 1567 1. archaic a. fitness b. orderliness 2. a. the quality or state of being decent ; propriety b …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 22decency — noun the quality of being decent; propriety …

    Wiktionary

  • 23decency — Synonyms and related words: accommodatingness, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, affability, agreeableness, amiability, appropriateness, assured probity, becomingness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, bienseance, blamelessness,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 24decency — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. decorum, propriety, seemliness, respectability; see behavior 1 , honesty 1 , propriety 1 , virtue 1 . See Synonym Study at decorum . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 25decency — de·cen·cy || diːsnsɪ n. modesty; integrity; proper behavior …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 26decency — noun (plural decencies) 1》 decent behaviour.     ↘(decencies) the requirements of acceptable behaviour: an appeal to common decencies. 2》 (decencies) things required for a reasonable standard of living …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 27decency — n. 1. Propriety, decorum, proper formality. 2. Modesty, delicacy, purity …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 28decency — n 1. propriety, good taste, decorum, dignity, respectability; appropriateness, seemliness, fitness, suitability, suitableness, becomingness; etiquette, formality. 2. virtue, goodness; chastity, purity, modesty, pudency, continence; kindness,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 29decency — de·cen·cy …

    English syllables

  • 30decency — de•cen•cy [[t]ˈdi sən si[/t]] n. pl. cies 1) the state or quality of being decent 2) conformity to a standard of propriety, modesty, etc 3) decencies a) the recognized standards of proper behavior; proprieties b) the essentials for decent or… …

    From formal English to slang

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