przyzwoitość in inglese:

She had the decency to apologize.

He didn't have the decency to admit that he was wrong.

Have you no sense of decency?

Mark's behaviour showed a total lack of common decency.

(In the satirical biopic “W.,” about the life of the younger Bush, the head of the fraternity is shown telling incoming freshmen, during a beer-drenched initiation ritual, “Delta Kappa brothers are men of honor, decency, and God-given character.

That is beneath ordinary decency.

The members of each stratum accept as their ideal of decency the scheme of life in vogue in the next higher stratum, and bend their energies to live up to that ideal.

Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Father questioned the propriety of this.

The way tourists dress offends the local standard of propriety.