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Significados de decorous en inglés

According with custom or propriety.

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Characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct.

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Examples for "indecorous"
Examples for "indecorous"
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At the funeral of Mademoiselle de Conde, a very indecorous incident happened.
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 0...
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This method of keeping grounds is comparatively inexpensive, therefore it is indecorous.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
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She knew she was being indecorous, and she cared not a whit.
A conspiracy of paper: a novel
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We saw nothing indecorous, heard no vile language, and witnessed no violence.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
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The book is in every way an injurious and indecorous one.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
Uso de decorous en inglés
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The gas-jets shone more clearly; the 'buses broke into a decorous trot.
Mary Gray
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In the cathedral it is all very charming, decorous, and not boring.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
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Yes; and your father will have four decorous houses on his hands.
Michael
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There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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But it is full of the romance of subtle and decorous psychology.
Studies in Early Victorian Literature
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His life, in the main, was as decorous as it was useful.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
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Looked at in that light, it appears a sweet and decorous meal.
A Personal Record
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Colonel Musgrave was, in a decorous fashion, the happiest of living persons.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
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Heatherton had grown used to the chronic scandal within its decorous borders.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
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For Gleg was still more the child of habit-anddecorous habit-than himself.
The Judgment House
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There was much hand-shaking, and among the women there were decorous kisses.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
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From all accounts he has livened up that usually decorous assemblage considerably.
The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
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I set off after Perry, though at a somewhat more decorous pace.
At the Earth's Core
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This, though it was penitence too late, was at least decorous language.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1...
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They could have been a rabbi and rebitsin, so decorous were they.
Kalooki Nights
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If morals were not much better, manners were a trifle more decorous.
The Women of the French Salons
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