The phrase "limits of decency" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the boundaries or standards of what is considered appropriate or acceptable behavior in a given situation. Example: The comedian's jokes crossed the limits of decency, causing outrage among many audience members.
That's stretching the limits of decency to breaking point.
"This is crossing all limits of decency," he wrote.
"Bossi has exceeded the limits of decency," the deputy prime minister, Gianfranco Fini, said.
Broadcasters have won the latest round in their ongoing bout with US TV regulators over the limits of decency on the small screen.
The internet is commonly thought of as a pervert's playground, a lawless domain beyond the normal strictures of national legal systems, with plenty of dark corners where the usual limits of decency are suspended.
But the ruling, issued eight votes to nil with Justice Sonya Sotomayor recusing herself, does nothing to change the fundamental constitutional limits of decency on daytime television as the court declined to consider the first amendment aspects of the case.
Apparently being called ANIMALS was Steve Brodner's limit of decency, at which point he declared a line had been crossed.
One is: everything we can give them, within the limits of basic decency and harm.
"I shall work, within the limits of judicial decency," he wrote, "to put off decision on miscegenation as long as I can".
When I began in this job last fall, I was told The Times considered the space granted Op-Ed columnists theirs to use as they wish, subject only to the limits of legality, decency and publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr.'s patience.
Cutler duly found himself playing Buster Bloodvessel, the bus conductor who announces to his passengers, "I am concerned for you to enjoy yourselves within the limits of British decency" and then develops a passion for Ringo's large aunt Jessie.
