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Word division: An·stand
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Er hatte nicht einmal den Anstand, sich zu entschuldigen. He didn't even have the grace to apologize.

Er hat keinen Funken Anstand. He has not a spark of decency.

Ihn vorher zu fragen, gebietet der Anstand. / ist ein Gebot des Anstands. [geh.] It is only fair to ask him beforehand.

Wer schweigt, weil er sich seiner Verfehlungen oder nur seiner Fehlbarkeit bewusst ist, beweist Anstand, aber sein Verhalten gerät nicht zum Vorbild, weil es unbemerkt bleibt. [G] Whoever keeps silent because he is conscious of his lapses or his fallibility, proves his sense of decency, but his conduct does not become a model because it remains unnoticed.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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