decent behaviour

  • 1Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation — Rules of Civility Decent Behaviour In Company and Conversation is the name of a list best known as a school writing exercise of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States of America. Most of the rules have been traced… …

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  • 2decent — /ˈdisənt / (say deesuhnt) adjective 1. fitting; appropriate. 2. conforming to recognised standards of propriety, good taste, modesty, etc., as in behaviour or speech. 3. respectable; worthy: a decent family. 4. of seemly appearance: decent… …

  • 3decent — adj. 1 a conforming with current standards of behaviour or propriety. b avoiding obscenity. 2 respectable. 3 acceptable, passable; good enough. 4 Brit. kind, obliging, generous (was decent enough to apologize). Derivatives: decently adv.… …

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  • 4Incivility — is a general term for social behaviour lacking in civility or good manners, on a scale from rudeness or lack of respect for elders, to vandalism and hooliganism, through public drunkenness and threatening behaviour. [cite… …

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  • 5Civic virtue — Civility redirects here. For the Wikipedia policy on civility, see Wikipedia:Civility. Jacques Louis David s 1784 painting The Oath of the Horatii, illustrating a dramatic moment from Livy s history of Rome, embodies eighteenth century ideas… …

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  • 6Etiquette — For other uses, see Etiquette (disambiguation). For Wikipedia s guidelines on etiquette, see Wikipedia:Etiquette. In High Change in Bond Street, ou la Politesse du Grande Monde (1796), James Gillray caricatured the lack of etiquette in a group of …

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  • 7Rao Farman Ali — PA – 1364 Major General Rao Farman Ali Khan (1923ndash January 21, 2004). He took commission in an artillery regiment in 1942 and later commanded the 26 Field Regiment . He was the artillery commander in East Pakistan from where he was promoted… …

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  • 8cognitive dissonance — cog‧ni‧tive dis‧so‧nance [ˌkɒgntɪv ˈdɪsnəns ǁ ˌkɑːg ] noun [uncountable] MARKETING HUMAN RESOURCES when someone s behaviour goes completely against their beliefs: • The cognitive dissonance between the act of firing someone and the manager s… …

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  • 9decency — noun (plural decencies) 1》 decent behaviour.     ↘(decencies) the requirements of acceptable behaviour: an appeal to common decencies. 2》 (decencies) things required for a reasonable standard of living …

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  • 10History of Cuba — 1736 map by Herman Moll of the West Indies and Mexico, together comprising New Spain , with Cuba visible in the center. The known history of Cuba, the largest of the Caribbean islands, predates Christopher Columbus sighting of the island during… …

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