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decency 音标拼音: [d'isənsi] n. 得体,礼貌,正派 得体,礼貌,正派 decency n 1: the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality [ ant: { indecency}] 2: the quality of being polite and respectableDecency \ De" cen* cy\, n.; pl. { Decencies}. [ L. decentia, fr. decens: cf. F. d[' e] cence. See { Decent}.] 1. The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty. [ 1913 Webster] Observances of time, place, and of decency in general. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense. -- Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. That which is proper or becoming. [ 1913 Webster] The external decencies of worship. -- Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster] Those thousand decencies, that daily flow From all her words and actions. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 123 Moby Thesaurus words for " decency": accommodatingness, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, affability, agreeableness, amiability, appropriateness, assured probity, becomingness, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, bienseance, blamelessness, ceremoniousness, character, civility, cleanness, complaisance, compliance, conformity, convenance, convenience, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, custom, decencies, decorousness, decorum, delicacy, desirability, dignity, elegance, erectness, estimableness, etiquette, expedience, expediency, fairness, feasibility, felicity, fitness, fittingness, form, formality, fruitfulness, generousness, genteelness, gentility, good character, good form, goodness, graciosity, graciousness, happiness, high ideals, high principles, high- mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kindliness, kindness, meetness, modesty, moral excellence, moral strength, niceness, nobility, normality, normativeness, obligingness, opportuneness, percentage, politicness, principles, probity, profit, profitability, properness, proprieties, propriety, prudence, pudency, pudicity, pureness, purity, rectitude, reputability, respectability, righteousness, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, shame, social convention, social usage, stainlessness, suitability, timeliness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness, urbanity, usefulness, virtue, virtuousness, wisdom, worthiness, worthwhileness
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