That reflects a community's disgust, and fear, about a continuing assault on public decency.
She managed to move maybe an inch, making it a small triumph for public decency.
In cases where the marriage is consummated, public decency gives way to affinity.
Something like that might be regarded as an offense against public decency.
By extension, the mayor has the right to close down an art exhibit if it offends his sense of public decency.
This was the first occasion on which a charge of outraging public decency had been preferred in over 80 years.
The club was tried and convicted for "outrage to public decency" but later successfully appealed the conviction.
On 12 February 1987, investigators arrested a new suspect for "outraging public decency."
No, but it is the police's duty to uphold public decency and other laws.