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How to use common decency in a sentence

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She can deny that human rights, presumption of innocence and just plain common decency are being sullied.
It was not justified in law and was a violation of the public's trust in its police forces and is at odds with common decency.
We cannot imagine a more full-frontal assault on common decency and family values.
They claim that by acting in the interests of the rich and powerful they act as guardians of law, order and common decency.
It is an affront to anyone with any sense of human dignity and common decency, regardless of where they stand on the issue.
So many pet lovers complain when motorists knock over their pets and don't have the common decency to stop and check if the animal is all right.
Gordon Brown will get a lot more respect by forgetting the flags and getting on with a more familiar agenda of common decency.
These actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency.
For them, common decency has no place in a fight for their cause.
No surprise, then, that having slipped the moorings of a common reality it slipped the moorings of a common decency as well.
How can Canadians have any confidence in the Prime Minister's common decency?
This is also part of behaving with common decency at an international level.
Put simply, common decency and remembrance of the countless victims of these regimes requires condemnation of both.
They depend upon the social concern and common decency of ordinary people.
A particular member led this attack, an attack on common decency and respect.
It is totally unacceptable and beyond common decency that any Government would condone this massacre.
There are principles of common decency which do the same.
Park regulations and common decency ban simply pooping over the edge.
This affront to common sense and common decency is difficult to defend.
Their ghettoes are an affront to common decency.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Gallantry often led young men to offer the ladies ginger beer, but common decency made them refuse.
Common decency has to prevail above all else if we are not to descend into total depravity.
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