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Meanings of more decorum in English

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Usage of more decorum in English
1
Women have needs, just as men do -wejust show more decorum.'
Roma Victrix
2
I think he needs to have a little bit more decorum.
The Irish Times
3
The toast was drank with right good will, though with somewhat more decorum than the others.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
4
Pray let us proceed with more decorum.
Tarzan of the Apes
5
They didn't care that Grace was now a married mother who ought to behave with more decorum.
Faith
6
In the public meetings for worship the people listened very attentively, and behaved with more decorum than formerly.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
7
In TV, the sheer scale of the production tends to call for rather more decorum in a host.
The Guardian
8
Should Bertie speak to the man and warn him that in future he must behave with more decorum?
Barchester Towers
9
Among this people the women are treated with more decorum than in any part of the Indias we had visited.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. / Voyages Of Discove...
10
His feelings of dismay seemed to be quite as deep, but his sorrow and solicitude were repressed into more decorum.
The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box
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And the warrior king did not cease that discipline till the Baital promised him to preserve more decorum in his observations.
Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic,...
12
Mrs. Bowen offered to draw Effie back to a posture of more decorum, but Colville put his arm round the little girl.
Indian Summer
13
TO BE fair, some TDs are trying to adhere to the call by Ceann Comhairle Seán Barrett for more decorum in the House.
The Irish Times
14
Even then, my neo-Epicurean conscience must have told me over and over again to pull myself together, to conduct myself with more decorum.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
15
Boswell, as in duty bound, seeing he was a member, declared there were few societies where there was better conversation or more decorum.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
16
"The time has come when I must insist on less noise, and more decorum upon the march," Wells said sternly.
When Wilderness Was King / A Tale of the Illinois Country
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