decorous
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But such disagreements tended to be handled with the decorous language of diplomacy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
Their work has been seen as reflecting their vastly different personas—Manet the dashing, witty, impetuous flâneur; Morisot the reserved, intelligent and exceedingly decorous bourgeoise—through the lens of their separate worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
In 1966, William Shawn, The New Yorker’s decorous but dictatorial editor, wooed Mr. Whitworth to the venerated weekly.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
To make a point she moved "outside the usual decorous modes of conversation that civil servants use", he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2023
And there is so much time to be endured, time heavy as fried food or thick fog; and then all at once these red events, like explosions, on streets otherwise decorous and matronly and somnambulent.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing decorous
Grade 12, List 2
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The Scarlet Letter
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