Sample Sentences for
decorum
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    The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were.  (source)
    decorum = proper manners and conduct
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    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.  (source)
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    In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.  (source)
    decorum = good manners
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    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.  (source)
    decorum = proper manners and conduct
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    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.  (source)
    decorous = considered proper and in good taste
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    We courted decorously, not like Dede and Jaimito, two little puppies you constantly have to watch over so they don't get into trouble—Mama has been telling me the stories.  (source)
    decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
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    Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick and the tock of life carried on.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorous means not and reverses the meaning of decorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    This piece of indecorum was told to his master, and the overseer was ordered to re-chain him.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorum means not and reverses the meaning of decorum. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    She feels quick frustration while just then a memory of bygone decorums (bonjour, Cracow!)†  (source)
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    The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorously means not and reverses the meaning of decorously. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    It was like dragging a hideous shape of death into the cleanly and cheerful space before a household fire, where it would present all the uglier aspect, amid the decorousness of everything about it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He had scented the matter as quickly as any of the rest, but decorum demanded that he sit oblivious until he was notified.  (source)
    decorum = proper manners and conduct
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    Nay again, whatever might be his eccentricities, Bartleby was an eminently decorous person.  (source)
    decorous = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
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