All 10 Uses
decorum
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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- He performed his official task, made his career, and at the same time amused himself pleasantly and decorously.†
Chpt 2decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- As examining magistrate Ivan Ilych was just as comme il faut and decorous a man, inspiring general respect and capable of separating his official duties from his private life, as he had been when acting as an official on special service.†
Chpt 2
- The preparations for marriage and the beginning of married life, with its conjugal caresses, the new furniture, new crockery, and new linen, were very pleasant until his wife became pregnant — so that Ivan Ilych had begun to think that marriage would not impair the easy, agreeable, gay and always decorous character of his life, approved of by society and regarded by himself as natural, but would even improve it.†
Chpt 2
- At first Ivan Ilych hoped to escape from the unpleasantness of this state of affairs by the same easy and decorous relation to life that had served him heretofore: he tried to ignore his wife's disagreeable moods, continued to live in his usual easy and pleasant way, invited friends to his house for a game of cards, and also tried going out to his club or spending his evenings with friends.†
Chpt 2
- Very soon, within a year of his wedding, Ivan Ilych had realized that marriage, though it may add some comforts to life, is in fact a very intricate and difficult affair towards which in order to perform one's duty, that is, to lead a decorous life approved of by society, one must adopt a definite attitude just as towards one's official duties.†
Chpt 2
- after a stumble, his life was regaining its due and natural character of pleasant lightheartedness and decorum.
Chpt 3 *decorum = proper manners and conduct
- But on the whole his life ran its course as he believed life should do: easily, pleasantly, and decorously.†
Chpt 3decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- Quarrels between husband and wife became more and more frequent, and soon the ease and amenity disappeared and even the decorum was barely maintained.†
Chpt 4decorum = proper manners and conduct
- The awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long.†
Chpt 7indecorous = improper or rudestandard 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.
- The awful, terrible act of his dying was, he could see, reduced by those about him to the level of a casual, unpleasant, and almost indecorous incident (as if someone entered a drawing room defusing an unpleasant odour) and this was done by that very decorum which he had served all his life long.†
Chpt 7decorum = proper manners and conduct
Definitions:
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(1)
(decorum) manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)