amenities, comity, courtliness, diplomatic code, exquisite manners, good form, mores, normativeness, properness, punctilio, rules of conduct, social graces
Last update: August 4, 2015
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It was found necessary to adjourn the sitting until the 7th of June, on which occasion the outward decencies were better observed, partly no doubt from the circumstance that Sigismund was present in person. [Please select]
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He knew nothing of the every-day decencies of civilized people. [Please select]
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One must preserve the decencies of life; one must make a good appearance in the field. [Please select]
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But Mahaffy was dumb in the presence of the decencies, he quite lacked an interpreter. [Please select]
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Pride went down before it, and reticence, and decencies of self-respect. [Please select]
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She will sacrifice her patriotism; she will even justify a possible disregard of the decencies. [Please select]
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Y'see there's no jail where they could stow a white woman and observe the decencies.' [Please select]
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For years you've done your best against the decencies of life. [Please select]
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I said to him then, "You rail at the world and scoff at men and many decencies, and yet you do these things." [Please select]
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