decency — OET

decency

noun

1 TV companies need to maintain standards of taste and decency:

propriety, decorum, seemliness, good taste, respectability, dignity, correctness, good form, etiquette, appropriateness, appropriacy, fitness, suitability;

morality, virtue, modesty, purity, delicacy, demureness, wholesomeness.

▷antonyms indecency.

2 he didn't have the decency to tell me he couldn't come:

courtesy, politeness, good manners, civility, respect, respectfulness;

consideration, thought, thoughtfulness, tact, diplomacy.

▷antonyms rudeness.

decency Oxford Dictionary of English