Both Uses
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The Minister's Black Veil
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- At the close of the services, the people hurried out with indecorous confusion, eager to communicate their pent-up amazement, and conscious of lighter spirits the moment they lost sight of the black veil.†
indecorous = 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.
- But there was the decorously grave, though unmoved physician, seeking only to...
*decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
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)