English language
Toggle Transcript
decorum::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | decorousness |
| Type of | correctitude, properness, propriety |
| Has types | becomingness |
| Derivation | decorous |
Examples of decorum
decorum
Few of the young women portrayed would meet Mount Holyoke standards for decorum.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Chruscinski refused to stick to skating decorum and keep smiling for the judges.
From the time.com
Consequently, it makes sense to maintain a certain level of decorum on Facebook.
From the time.com
She has crossed lines of decorum from the beginning, as the film deftly reminds.
From the kentucky.com
Mom is uncompromising about manners and decorum, both personal and professional.
From the time.com
Administrators and staff often discuss professional ethics and decorum, he said.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Their shared commitment to maintaining judicial decorum is all that binds them.
From the kentucky.com
There are some things that taste and decorum dictate you simply don't talk about.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Have you had prior outside sales experience and present a professional decorum?
From the jobview.monster.com
- Propriety in manners and conduct
- 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.
- Appropriate social behavior; propriety; A convention of social behavior
- Or modesty of demeanor between the sexes, is strictly enjoined in Muslim law, and a special chapter is devoted to it in the Darru 'l-Mukhtar and other works on Muhammadan law.
- The requirement that individual characters, the characters' actions, and the style of speech should be matched to each other and to the genre in which they appear. ...
- Is proper and polite behavior. If you let out a big belch at a fancy dinner party, you're not showing much decorum.
- To conduct oneself in a proper manner. Examples related to debate would be to refrain from attacking someone's motives, addressing all comments through the chair, avoiding use of members' names, avoid speaking against your own motion, and refraining from disturbing the assembly.
- Neoclassic belief that characters were required to behave according to expectations based on their social status, sex, age, etc.; sometimes referred to as beinseance ("good sense").
- The order and respect for others that all delegates at a Model UN conference must exhibit. The Chair will call for decorum when he or she feels that the committee is not being respectful of a speaker, of the dais, or of their roles as ambassadors.
