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decorum
noun as in appropriate behavior, good manners
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He stipulated that his office will “only work with House and Senate Democratic appropriators ‘if they conduct themselves with decorum.'”
“Shows like ‘The Bachelor’ try to maintain a level of decorum and something like ‘Love Island’ throws that into their ocean and their pool and their foam parties with both hands.”
They’ve spent years watching the people who claim to represent them repeatedly prioritize civility and decorum over actually trying to stop all the horrors we all clearly see.
But there’s no getting around the fact that his past behavior and openness to violence have lowered the bar for decorum in American politics.
The general sense of decorum was apparent when the leaders were discussing the housing crisis.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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