All 5 Uses of
decorum
in
Crime and Punishment
- The girl seemed hardly to know what she was doing; she crossed one leg over the other, lifting it indecorously, and showed every sign of being unconscious that she was in the street.†
Chpt 1.4
- She felt it horribly indecorous, especially for her, to look at another person's money.†
Chpt 5.1
- And it's a hard thing to pass everything by all one's life, to turn one's back upon everything, to forget one's mother and decorously accept the insults inflicted on one's sister.†
Chpt 5.4
- … and it was quite indecorous.†
Chpt 6.2
- Well, and that's enough, I think, by way of a decorous oraison funebre for the most tender wife of a most tender husband.†
Chpt 6.4 *
Definition:
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(decorum) manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste