standard of decency
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstandardanddecency
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standard
adjective
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
usual rather than special, especially when thought of as being correct ...
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decency
noun
uk/ˈdiː.sən.si/us/ˈdiː.sən.si/
behaviour that is good, moral, and acceptable ...
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(Definition ofstandardanddecencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Is it because it is astandardofdecencyand comfort, or for what other reason are you asking for if?
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There has to be some basicstandardofdecency.
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He continues to hold our people hostage, in defiance of every rule of law and everystandardofdecencyand civilisation.
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I think that when we are dealing with each other's interests there is astandardofdecencythat ought to be applied.
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With regard to another 40, the burden of putting them up to astandardofdecencywill be a tremendous one.
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He had brought up a family of seven children on thestandardofdecencycommon to our mining villages.
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I am speaking of astandardofdecencybased on their own, relevant experience.
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How people can maintain any reasonablestandardofdecencyunder those conditions passes my comprehension, but the fact is that they do.
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I am perfectly sure that by anystandardofdecencyyou like to put up you cannot avoid saying that this book is an indecent book.
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They are able to carry on according to a standard which we would accept as a reasonablestandardofdecency, and are doing so without undue foreign interference.
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I would not have believed that any other human being would have thought that an intrusion at such a time would stand up to anystandardofdecency.
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What is astandardofdecency?
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It offends everystandardofdecency.
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Customary law and church bureaucracy in readers' conservative thought fostered the will to virtue among the young by creating fixed standards of decency, tests against which to measure conduct.
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The pollution of the mind means that the standards of decency of society are affected.
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The security forces are constantly in breach of what we should call normal standards of decency.
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I can remember the days when people in public life, even those with whom one disagreed, upheld standards of decency and integrity.
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However, there is a difference between standards of decency and leading a cushy life.
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Even in war, when hate and cruelty run riot, certain standards of decency and humanity must be observed.
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Let us be clear that programming of that character, which flouts all standards of decency, taste and discretion, does not come about by chance.
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