39 Verbs to Use for the Word decency

In your country the power of Parliament is omnipotent, and yet in its legislation it voluntarily observes these great fundamental decencies of liberty which in the American Constitution are protected by formal guarantees.

Hereupon, confessing herself unnerved, Miss Caroline led me to the dining room, and in a glass of Madeira from a cask forwarded by Second-cousin Colonel Lucius Quintus Peavey, C.S.A., she pledged herself to preserve the decencies as these had been codified in Little Arcady by the Sons and Daughters of Temperance.

were I not a patriot, I would welcome M. Frontenac to teach them decency.

To men, you want no decency, if they don't provoke you: as to that, I wish you would only learn to be as patient of contradiction from others, as you would have other people be to you.

Of our conferrence I need not tell you the effect; it surely may be forgiven me, if on this occasion I forgot the decency of common forms.

That military manner is repugnant to gentleness and morals, and lacks that decency which constitutes the charm in things even remote from virtue.

When the Prussians invaded Bohemia, and this whole nation was fired with resentment, the king of England gave orders in his palace, that none should mention his nephew with disrespect; by this command he maintained the decency necessary between princes, without enforcing, and, probably, without expecting obedience, but in his own presence.

He delighted in flouting convention, gloried in outraging decency.

Rome was in such a state as to require the harshest applications, and the despotic severity of Sixtus did much to restore decency and security to life.

They have believed that, at a price, they can save decency and civilization in Europe, and, if they are wrong, they have known, as we know, that the day when decency and civilization are trampled under the foot of the brute is a day when it is good to die.

And thus it was; masters of the treasure, Rua and his friends showed so little decency in the partition that the principal colonists, ashamed and disgusted, perceiving the immense distance that existed between Vasco Nuñez and these people, seized the heads of the sedition, secured them, and called back Balboa, whose authority and government they were anxious again to recognize.

The new freewoman is going to be a grave and capable being, soberly dressed, and imposing her own decency and neutrality of behaviour upon the men she meets.

"A hundred curses on the swine-eaters, who know neither decency nor civility!" "Make room, the pack of you," he said, advancing to the door.

Now, released from restraint, society abandoned the decencies of life and the reverence for law itself, and plunged into excesses more unnatural than had been the restraints of Puritanism.

Every circumstance that we could compare with it is still correct, except that the women appear to have lost the decency he describes them to possess; for there were several whom curiosity and the novelty of our arrival had brought down to see us, naked to the hips, which alone supported a petticoat or wrapper of blue cotton stuff that exposed their knees.

But inherently he loved life's decencies, although he mocked their sentimental imitations; and he followed Sextussquandered hours with him, neglecting his own interests (which after all were nothing too important and were well enough looked after by a Syracusan slave), simply because Sextus was a manly sort of fellow whose friendship stirred in him emotions that he felt were satisfying.

Of the rest, perhaps one-half can be moulded by a firm hand into something approaching decency; but the remainder are going to give us a great deal of trouble.

With regard to the Duke of Leeds, I think you have misconstrued the decency of my expression.

" "This is being in luck for a poet, for they are of a class that are a little apt to neglect the decencies.

You can't build life or happiness except on the quarry stuff they keep on Holiday Hill, right, honor, decency.

The lady who was giving the character entered a little upon the cook's moral qualifications, and described her as a very decent woman; to which the astounding replythis was 60 years ago, and a Dean tells the story"Oh, dn her decency; can she make good collops?

If the highly imaginary romances suffered from an excess of delicacy, certain other tales by Mrs. Haywood overleaped decency as far on the other side.

I possess decency, he possesses a tribuneship: he possesses a prætorship, I possess modesty.

This, as well as other passages in Dryden's life, allows us the pleasing indulgence of praising the decency of our own time.

But however much a man of such talents preaches decency, he will, nevertheless, sometimes feel himself tempted to transgress the boundaries of propriety and decorum, since from time immemorial genius has reckoned such escapades among its prerogatives.

39 Verbs to Use for the Word  decency