Library patrons are asked to behave in a decorous manner by whispering and being respectful to those around them. From LearnThat.org.
The tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Our definition of "decorous" is rather stodgy and inhibited compared to much of the rest of the civilized world. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Wilson's "You Lie!" | What Actually Happened...] Reference
You have yet to hear the 'decorous' and thrilling part of my tale. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
So he really has been actually kind of decorous in what he has been willing to say. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2002] Reference
Never, or hardly ever, was a more decorous debate. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
Miss Hurd had been discreetly conveyed to the decorous Back Bay. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Four years later it seems almost decorous to call an opponent a liar. From Wordnik.com. [ELECTION, NOT CANONIZATION] Reference
This is because ... the media is incredibly decorous and understanding?. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Warren Beatty's Daughter: The Media Is Kind and Gentle--Or Carefully Controlled] Reference
As the decorous crowd filed out Terry hesitated a moment, then kept on his way. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
"The whole decorous structure of the convent suddenly seemed a sham," she writes. From Wordnik.com. [Culture Clash] Reference
"And is it decorous in episode, cheerful in tone, and forcible in moral tendency?". From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Besides being extremely graceful in every way, she is modest, lovable, and decorous. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Hero, and recited the formulas of the decorous and symmetrical abstract heroic poem. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
For such a long and rancorous dispute, the major-league baseball strike is remarkably decorous. From Wordnik.com. [One Strike And They're Out] Reference
It is really more correct, decidedly more proper; Chrysantheme is evidently a very decorous young person. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The whole tone of the Convention had been subdued and decorous with the decorum of incertitude and timidity. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Not so with the French novels that underwent fumigation and curtailment at the hands of decorous translators. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
It's also a quietly decorous intimation of the backlash what do we need white kids in our schools for, anyway?. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy Of Summerton] Reference
They shook their heads, gravely, with decorous looks of sympathy, repeating their short refrain, like a knell. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
Episcopalians, the American variant of Anglicans, are no longer the decorous flock known as "God's frozen people.". From Wordnik.com. [The Limits Of Inclusiveness] Reference
Because it would be easier – more decorous, acceptable – to mourn the loss than to keep waging a hopeless battle. From Wordnik.com. [Books: “Nothing Right”] Reference
After hearing that the administration had rejected Iacocca's demands, Japanese car executives were typically decorous. From Wordnik.com. [Detroit Pleads Its Case] Reference
Most of the works are painstakingly crafted but never rise above the decorous, illustrative and metaphorically simplistic. From Wordnik.com. [Transforming Works] Reference
The first interview ended in great excitement, but a second meeting, on the following day, was more decorous in character. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
She managed to keep to a decorous walk until she had swung the gate behind her, then she had sped up the drive like a fawn. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
His enviable gifts as a melodist are evident throughout and finely straddle the line between the decorous and the deeply felt. From Wordnik.com. [Terence Blanchard: Free Will And 'Choices'] Reference
Whether she murmured approval or blushed in decorous protest, it was plain that she found Joel's monologues immensely interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
One thinks twice, even thrice, before using in a magazine as decorous as NEWSWEEK the four-letter F word that causes so much discord. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Pets Get 'Freedoms'] Reference
Now quietness and good order, sober, discreet, self-seeking, decorous epicureanism and the rest, are not precisely the virtues that will save. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Have I not told thee news enough, and of a quality to make thy hair stand on end -- the comely hair of a most decorous young Venetian maid?. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
It took Professor Harmon several minutes to reduce the noisy enthusiasts to the decorous state of order in which they had entered the gymnasium. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
And the always decorous Dennis Rodman laid hands on Magic, reminding him that the only celebrities with free passes were sitting in the grandstand. From Wordnik.com. [Raging Bulls] Reference
And no less decorous is it to hear the wife say, "Husband, you are my teacher and philosopher and guide in the most beautiful and divine subjects.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Men's voices, hesitant and rusty at first, then rose confidently over the more decorous hum of the regular church-goers as old memories were renewed. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Pesth is exceedingly proper and decorous as soon as the darkness has fallen, although I do remember to have seen a torchlight procession there during the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
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