0 kind and honest behavior -- anstendighet [ masculine ]
to act with decency å opptre med anstendighet
1 (the general idea of) what is proper, fitting, moral etc; the quality or act of being decent -- anstendighet, sømmelighet
The opinion must be expressed in a manner which preserves the ordinary decencies of controversy.
Directly they show that they are prepared to observe the ordinary courtesies and decencies of international intercourse, we shall be prepared to meet them.
We cannot restore diplomatic relations with a country which ignores all the courtesies and the decencies of international life.
There is the man who is often living in a small room with his family and unable to preserve the decencies of life.
We shall find it harder to hang on to those decencies if we clutter them up in a kind of package deal with manifest nonsense.
We consider that the cost of burial should be reduced while, of course, preserving the decencies.
We must teach the decencies of life and preserve the family unit.
If the normal decencies, restraints and courtesies of society are undermined, then in the end everyone loses.
