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Decorous   /dˈɛkərəs/   Listen
Decorous

adjective
1.
Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct.
2.
According with custom or propriety.  Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, seemly.  "Comely behavior" , "It is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money" , "A decent burial" , "Seemly behavior"



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"Decorous" Quotes from Famous Books



... her husband had given her cause of offence and had been forgiven. While he was still strong with that divine superiority which she had attributed to him, she had almost acknowledged to herself that he had a right to demand that she should be dull and decorous. But now that she had found him to be in the receipt of clandestine love-letters, it did seem that she might allow herself a little liberty. She had forgiven him freely. She had really believed that in spite of the letter she herself was the woman he loved. She had said something to herself ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope

... up into a more decorous position, and turned his eyes towards his boss. "I never knew yuh took any interest in relic-hunting," he ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... in support of him. I may also mention that, for the last two or three days, Mlle. Blanche and De Griers had been making a great deal of the young Prince, under the very nose of the poor General. In short, the company, though decorous and conventional, was in a gay, familiar mood. But no sooner did the Grandmother appear than the General stopped dead in the middle of a word, and, with jaw dropping, stared hard at the old lady—his ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... satisfaction, "that I heard a loud noise of keys and bolts at the very moment I freed you from the midst of the thorns. But is it really true, that Jahel agreed so quickly to your propositions, which have not been quite decorous, and which, for certain, you did not make with an easy heart? I am abashed; and, say, my good master, did she not speak of me, not mention my name, with ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France

... each of the four corners, lest the seconds be hindered in their work. In the place where the witnesses are to sit, ordinary candlesticks should be placed, according to etiquette; but an excessive illumination is not decorous. Two screens covered with white paper should be set up, behind the shadow of which are concealed the dirk upon a tray, a bucket to hold the head after it has been cut off, an incense-burner, a pail of water, and a basin. The above rules apply equally to the ceremonies observed when the hara-kiri ...
— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford


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