Clues for the word "DECENCY"
We've had 12 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 22 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on January 20, 2026.
Definition of decency
- 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.
Referring Clues
- Proper sense of behavior
- Propriety
- Ethical behavior
- "Common" quality
- Modesty
- Seemliness
- It's fitting enclosure between last month and start of year
- Goodness - sense of what is fitting
- Needy couple of hundred about to offer grace
- Respectable and polite behavior
- Respectable behavior
- You need to dress for it
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - January 20, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 14, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - January 02, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 09, 2025
- Daily Quick - December 24, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 05, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2023
- Daily Quick - December 24, 2022
- Netword - January 06, 2018
- Daily Quick - August 02, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2016
- New York Times - October 03, 2015
- Guardian Quick - June 25, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - February 28, 2012
- LA Times - June 17, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - April 05, 2010
- Guardian Quick - November 30, 2006
- Guardian Quick - December 09, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - December 21, 2004