Decency and Means

Decency

Decency noun - Socially acceptable behavior.

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Means and decency are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Means" instead a noun "Decency".

Nearby Words: decent, decently

Means noun - How a result is obtained or an end is achieved.

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Decency and means are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Decency" instead a noun "Means".

Nearby Words: mean, meaning

human	human decency	human means
common	common decency	common means
ordinary	ordinary decency	ordinary means
standard	standard decency	standard means
Other adjectives: actual, real, little, conventional.

However, this means it also tends to be forgotten that merely possessing the potential for greatness and decency does not automatically make one great or decent.

Source: Draco In Leather Pants / Live-Action TV
More invisible platforms appear elsewhere (of the iron box and falling varieties) that at least have the decency to be marked by some Wumpa Fruit, and there's at least one instance where a box is stashed away behind the background, where by all means it seems you should die by trying to go there.

Source: Video Game / Crash Bandicoot (1996)
They have a different summer adventure in every book, and they're all still young somehow... Defeat Means Friendship: If the culprit of whatever mystery they're solving has any decency in him/her at all, he'll be reconciled to the Aldens right away.

Source: Literature / The Boxcar Children

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