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manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste- All decorum was lost in the classroom.
decorum = proper manners and conduct
- She insists upon decorum and civility at her meetings.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously,Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- after a stumble, his life was regaining its due and natural character of pleasant lightheartedness and decorum.Leo Tolstoy -- The Death of Ivan Ilych
- 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
- And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
Goes all decorum.William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure - 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
- —she saw with surprise ... Magnus Bane ... was being the model of decorum.Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
decorum = proper manners
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorum = good manners
decorous = considered proper and in good taste
decorum = manners and conduct considered to be proper
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorum = proper manners and conduct
decorum = proper manners and conduct
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