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Meanings of decorous in inglês

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"
              1
              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...
              2
              This method of keeping grounds is comparatively inexpensive, therefore it is indecorous.
              The Theory of the Leisure Class
              3
              She knew she was being indecorous, and she cared not a whit.
              A conspiracy of paper: a novel
              4
              We saw nothing indecorous, heard no vile language, and witnessed no violence.
              The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
              5
              The book is in every way an injurious and indecorous one.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 / A Magazin...
              Usage of decorous in inglês
              1
              The gas-jets shone more clearly; the 'buses broke into a decorous trot.
              Mary Gray
              2
              In the cathedral it is all very charming, decorous, and not boring.
              Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
              3
              Yes; and your father will have four decorous houses on his hands.
              Michael
              4
              There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.
              Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
              5
              But it is full of the romance of subtle and decorous psychology.
              Studies in Early Victorian Literature
              6
              His life, in the main, was as decorous as it was useful.
              Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
              7
              Looked at in that light, it appears a sweet and decorous meal.
              A Personal Record
              8
              Colonel Musgrave was, in a decorous fashion, the happiest of living persons.
              The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
              9
              Heatherton had grown used to the chronic scandal within its decorous borders.
              Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
              10
              For Gleg was still more the child of habit-anddecorous habit-than himself.
              The Judgment House
              11
              There was much hand-shaking, and among the women there were decorous kisses.
              Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
              12
              From all accounts he has livened up that usually decorous assemblage considerably.
              The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
              13
              I set off after Perry, though at a somewhat more decorous pace.
              At the Earth's Core
              14
              This, though it was penitence too late, was at least decorous language.
              Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1...
              15
              They could have been a rabbi and rebitsin, so decorous were they.
              Kalooki Nights
              16
              If morals were not much better, manners were a trifle more decorous.
              The Women of the French Salons
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