decencies

Mr. Lucas has been, and gone, and there is not much beyond the decencies of ordinary sentiment to be got from him.

It was very proper that the United States government should thus outrage the common decencies of judicial process.

The man was perpetually defying the decencies and delicacies which were as perfume in Braybrooke's nostrils.

By our long sitting together, we lose, by our familiarity and acquaintance, the decencies of the house.

He respects the decencies of life, and does not strike below the belt, or creep down the back of your neck.