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Definition

manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste

decorum = proper manners and conduct

decorum = proper manners

She offends my sense of decorum.
She is troubled by his indifference to decorum.
After the interruption, the chairperson asked for decorum and civility during the remainder of the meeting.
Any other plan would be contrary to reason, to precedent, and to decorum.
Alexander Hamilton -- Federalist Papers
The tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme.
strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
Jane Austen -- Persuasion
Wilkins was looking important and excited, and trying to conceal an inward exultation under a manner of decorous calm.
Christie, Agatha -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Such lack of decorum, it is clear, is as unthinkable as nudity on the street.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

decorum = proper manners and conduct

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

decorum = good manners

She wore her decorous dresses to morning mass, and around her neck displayed the short single strand of pearls she had received on her fifteenth birthday.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban

decorous = considered proper and in good taste

The honored guests moved silently upon the platform, herded toward their high, carved chairs by Dr. Bledsoe with the decorum of a portly head waiter.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

decorum = manners and conduct considered to be proper

she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia

decorum = proper manners and conduct

In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously,
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste

after a stumble, his life was regaining its due and natural character of pleasant lightheartedness and decorum.
Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych

decorum = proper manners and conduct

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

decorum = proper manners and conduct

And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

decorum = proper manners and conduct

And I know Englishmen of the Colonel's type-even if he had fallen in love with the young lady at first sight, he would have advanced slowly and with decorum, not rushing things.
Agatha Christie -- Murder On The Orient Express

decorum = proper manners and conduct

—she saw with surprise ... Magnus Bane ... was being the model of decorum.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

decorum = proper manners and conduct

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