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decorous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | becoming, comely, comme il faut, seemly |
| Derivation | decorousness, decorum |
decorous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | decorousness, decorum |
the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme.
Examples of decorous
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Even in his own tongue, he largely confines himself to such decorous platitudes.
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Baseball hasn't always been the clean, decorous, symmetrical package it is now.
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But this decorous, if visually beautiful, piece feels too repressed to breathe.
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They conduct a decorous courtship in which they parade before their chosen belles.
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And Alida Becker finds a less decorous side of Japanese culture in a sumo stadium.
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The Gores are likely to have as dull and decorous a divorce as they had a marriage.
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No decorous Edwardian soap opera, no fine period costumes, no tasteful cello music.
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All of this unfolds in scenes that have a certain distant, decorous quality.
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Denver had never seen a more decorous convention, seldom one more serious.
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- Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"
- Becoming: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
- (decorously) in a proper and decorous manner; "he pretended to be pleased and applauded decorously"
- Decorum (from the Latin: "right, proper") was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.
- Marked by proper behavior
- (adj) behaving in a respectful, correct manner
