'false decency' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe behavior that appears honorable or respectful on the surface, but is actually insincere or unethical in nature. For example, "Karen was always putting on a show of false decency whenever her boss was around."
Colonial false consciousness or inherent decency?
A new French antismoking advertisement aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype has gotten more attention than even its creators intended, and critics suggest that it offends common decency and creates a false analogy between oral sex and smoking.
But the juror is under an equal obligation not to be lulled by the decency of his motives into a false confidence in the impartiality of his judgments.
Ben, for all his manifold flaws, is never dishonest -- his mistake is to place a higher value on candor than he does on decency -- and Mr. Douglas never hits a false note.
Over the past few days, he's tried hard to contrast himself not only with with political strategists, who have turned choosing a president into "an absurd game," but also with "a troubled woman" whose "false accusations," he claimed, "exceed common sense and certainly the standards of decency in America".
It describes a culture of censorship and denial that granulates people's estimation of storytelling and decency akin to George Orwell's descriptions of besieged language and false truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
He also takes issue with the characterization of the site as making false equivalencies and sees himself as one of the last watchers on the wall of decency in the public sphere.
Sickened by a false attack upon one of his colleagues, Welch asked the senator, "Have you no sense of decency?" Today the Teamsters and workers across the nation are asking corporate leaders that very same question!
