(n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
(n.) That which is proper or becoming.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(2) "Throughout America, the Queen stands for decency and civility."
(3) Yes, Goldsmith is to be held in contempt: a man of decency would have rejected this gutter strategy.
(4) "Sir Alex Ferguson had the decency to phone me to let me know that he was going in another direction after I applied for the reserve team post at Manchester United in 2003.
(5) As Obama put it in her speech today, this isn’t about politics, “it’s about basic human decency”.
(6) Having been born in Belgium he didn't start from a belief in the inferiority of other countries, but he loved Britain for the security it offered his family and the gentle decency of our nation."
(7) She is talking to Dizzee Rascal, who at least has the decency to goon around for the camera.
(8) If Whittingdale had any honour, any mercy, and any basic human decency, he would murder David Attenborough himself today, in his bed, to spare him any further suffering.
(9) But we can all probably do without Fifa's "fair play in marketing" lectures, which clothe commercial ruthlessness in the language of sporting decency, apparently oblivious to the impression given by wallpapering every stadium with signs that push BP or declare "We proudly accept only Visa".
(10) Neither the Congress nor evaluators have clear concepts of what constitutes a life of decency and dignity for the chronically dependent.
(11) At 6ft 3in tall, the lanky Peck was a pillar of moral rectitude standing up for decency and tolerance.
(12) Austerity as we know it – where basic human decency is sacrificed to solutions that purport to be cheaper but turn out not to be – actually started before the austerity narrative.
(13) Decency is one of those lines.” Erickson also told reporters: “I don’t want to put words in [Trump’s] mouth and I hate using the label misogynist because I think its used too much but he’s suggesting a woman as a lady asked him a question and did so because it was her time of the month.
(14) I hope David Cameron has the decency to invite you around for coffee or lunch as Tony Blair and David Blunkett did once I was out.
(15) A former director general of the prison service, Martin Narey, who now has a contract with the firm as a consultant on decency in G4S prisons, says he was once vehemently opposed to private-sector involvement in the prison service before he was appointed in 1998.
(16) Few would challenge the Camerons' fundamental decency.
(17) Looking first at the smaller politics, the attack by Fallon on Miliband’s decency and fitness for No 10 was a risky play by the Tories.
(18) In Uncommon Danger, the representatives of communism and what Zaleshoff calls "moderate radicalism" but Kenton himself would probably think of as basic human decency are pitted against the agents of capital and fascism: Balterghen, Saridza and their many cronies.
(19) But the depth of this tragedy also drew out the decency and determination of our nation.
(20) Fry wrote: "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane.
Recency
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither duration nor recency of OC use had a protective effect against peptic ulcer.
(2) The results of all three studies support the position that reminding provides a direct basis for later judgments of the relative recency of events.
(3) On the temporal recency task, the alcoholics were impaired when they were asked unexpectedly to judge how recently these stimuli had been presented.
(4) P3 target stimulus amplitude was reduced significantly for the subjects who had not eaten relative to those who had eaten, whereas peak P3 latency was only moderately affected by the recency of food consumption over task conditions.
(5) When the interval between List 2 and the test was shortened, recency effects were found for part-word cues for both cued recall and production instructions.
(6) The auditory advantage for recall of recency items has been explained in terms of (1) the contributions of precategorical acoustic storage (PAS), (2) an advantage of changing-state over static stimuli, and (3) an advantage of primary-linguistic coding.
(7) Like human judgments of recency, accuracy varied inversely with the lag and directly with the temporal separation of the objects in the probe.
(8) The results showed that the rehearsal training had an overall facilitatory effect on recall and that this effect was more pronounced for signs than for words, especially in the recency portion of the serial position curve.
(9) A similar trend emerged in recency of Pap smear, with 14% of older controls and 52% of the younger group reporting a cervical smear within 3 years before the interview.
(10) Results indicated that speech redundancy can be circumvented cognitively, nasality was more salient (different) than voicing, and a recency effect was found.
(11) The effect of manipulating these variables was such that sometimes no recency effect was obtained, implying that their state is sometimes critical for the effect.
(12) Previous results showing recency with ASL stimuli in normal subjects were not replicated.
(13) The validity of DIS-CM (Chinese modified version of Diagnostic Interview Schedule) was examined by analyzing lifetime prevalence of each age group, age at onset, and recency of illness.
(14) 2) There was a normal suffix effect or attenuation of the recency effect when the digits were followed by an another irrelevant speech suffix, the "8".
(15) The main finding is that schizophrenic subjects show reduced primacy and middle position performance, but are able to match the recency recall of controls.
(16) As expected, semantic tasks generally led to greater final recall than nonsemantic tasks, with semantic tasks even producing positive recency on the delayed test.
(17) We have performed a retrospective study of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting for postinfarction angina in an effort to determine the influence of recency of myocardial infarction and unstable angina on operative mortality.
(18) The paper concludes with a discussion of a possible interpretation of the recency effect as a emergent property of all types of memory system, including verbal short-term memory.
(19) CHI patients demonstrated both a recency and primacy effect along with improvement over repeated trials (positive slope learning curve).
(20) Compared with AD patients, PD patients were disproportionately impaired in recency discrimination relative to content recognition.