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DECOROUS
Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dec·o·rous
[
dek
-er-
uh
s
,
dih-
kawr
-
uh
s
,
-
kohr
-
]
/
ˈdɛk
ər
əs
,
dɪˈkɔr
əs
,
-ˈkoʊr-
/
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DECOROUS
Main Entry:
decorous
Part of Speech:
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example Sentences
However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered.
For all its wildness, its 9000-foot peaks and grizzly bears, Glacier is the most decorous of parks.
Such success followed his teaching that the whole aspect of the town became more moral and decorous in a marvellously short time.
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However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered.
For all its wildness, its 9000-foot peaks and grizzly bears, Glacier is the most decorous of parks.
Such success followed his teaching that the whole aspect of the town became more moral and decorous in a marvellously short time.
The chairman raps his mahogany gavel: the committee rises with a decorous scraping of chairs and files out murmuring.
The language may be more decorous today, but the ideas are the same.
This most decorous of men could barely oblige; tears rolled down his face.
Current slang, out of which the more decorous language dredges a large part of its raw materials, is full of them.
But the revival has exacted a price: the decorous look of a residential street.
Four photographs all framed in decorous plain silver went to the anthracite.
The slowdown since then has been equally decorous.
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