Sentence examples for decency about from inspiring English sources

The phrase "decency about" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means having a sense of appropriateness or morality. Example: She always conducts herself with a certain decency about her, even in the most challenging situations.

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"McCain's got a decency about him, too".

There is a sort of Orwellian decency about his writing".

If this man has any decency about him he will not hold a march through Wootton Bassett".

He has kept a sort of decency about him, which is a good thing as a human being but perhaps not so good ambition-wise".

The streak of asceticism in Indian religion also chimes with the urge for a new purity and decency about the way that objects are created and used.

Ms. Burch has a decency about her clothes that means that even her botanical-printed swimwear, cotton-pleated shorts or those in-between "skorts," in a hedgerow print, suggest modesty.

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The film is thrillingly, unapologetically about decency and honour, about, as Laura heartrendingly puts it, controlling oneself.

And before anyone complains on decency grounds about publishing this uniquely unnerving photograph in which we find Rupert drooling over Jerry's left cheek (behave, mate; we know you've pulled a hottie, no need to show off), we offer in mitigation that it was taken on Halloween.

We help defeat the Linda Harveys by showing in our lives and loves what real decency is about.

It's about equality, it's about compassion, it's about decency… and it's about time.

Here's Roth doing the most unfashionable thing in the world: he's the last novelist alive to write about heroism and about decency - which, through novel after novel, is exemplified by the event he was just too young to catch.

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