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dec·o·rous

(dĕk′ər-əs, dĭ-kôr′əs)

adj.

Characterized by or exhibiting decorum; proper: decorous behavior.

[From Latin decōrus, becoming, handsome, from decor, seemliness, beauty; see dek- in Indo-European roots.]

dec′o·rous·ly adv.

dec′o·rous·ness n.

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Adv.

decorously - in a proper and decorous manner; "he pretended to be pleased and applauded decorously"

indecorously, unbecomingly - without decorousness

Translations

باحْتِشام، بِلَياقَه

uhlazeněvhodně

anständig

convenablement

virîulega

terbiyeli bir şekilde

有礼貌地

decorously

[ˈdekərəslɪ] ADV → decorosamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

decorously

adv behave → geziemend, schicklich; dress → schicklich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

decorously

[ˈdɛkərəslɪ] adv → decorosamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

decorous

(ˈdekərəs) adjective

(behaving in a manner which is) acceptable, especially quiet and dignified. behaving in a decorous manner.

ˈdecorously adverb

decorum (diˈkoːrəm) noun

quiet, dignified and proper behaviour. The man behaved with decorum in the old lady's presence.

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She was a sprightly young woman, very smart and merry and decorously voluptuous, and of that fascinating prettiness that wins the hearts of boys and storms the footlights.

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"Nay, my lord, craving your pardon, but we are accustomed to have grace before meat," said Robin decorously. "And as our own chaplain is not with us to-day, will you be good enough to say it for us?"

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Once in a while I make a good joke, as you have heard, and then I permit my daughters to laugh decorously; but they are never allowed to make a joke themselves."

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The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.

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In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb.

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I am witness that that ceremony is faithfully observed by both parties - and most gravely and decorously, too.

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"You are the only one," resumed Gringoire, "who has listened to the piece decorously. What do you think of it?"

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But there was the decorously grave, though unmoved physician, seeking only to mitigate the last pangs of the patient whom he could not save.

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Astley, as usual, remained in the background, and gazed calmly and decorously at the scene.

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The strange, rich flowers of Eden on her head; the complexion, so much deeper and more brilliant than those of our native beauties; the foreign, as it seemed, and fantastic garb, yet not too fantastic to be worn decorously in the street; the delicately-wrought embroidery of the skirt; the broad gold chain about her neck; the curious ring upon her finger; the fan, so exquisitely sculptured in open work, and painted to resemble pearl and ebony;--where could Drowne, in his sober walk of life, have beheld the vision here so matchlessly embodied!

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Everything was done most decorously, to the considerable surprise of the intruders.

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An unresisting victim is not a pleasant thing; whether the murder is done decorously in the drawing- room, or brutally on the highway, there should be a struggle to give some plausible excuse for taking a life.