decency vs tact

decency

noun
  • The quality of being decent; propriety. 

  • That which is proper or becoming. 

tact

noun
  • Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. 

  • The stroke in beating time. 

  • A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise). 

  • The sense of touch; feeling. 

verb
  • To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense). 

How often have the words decency and tact occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )