decorously

IPA: dˈɛkɝʌsɫi

Examples of "decorously" in Sentences

The protesters have largely been very decorously behaved.
After a long court battle, a settlement was reached—the merchant was granted membership and the cats were more decorously positioned.
Wallace Nutting's hand-colored photographs of carefully staged "Colonial" interiors with decorously posed costumed inhabitants had popularized the myth by 1910.
Jim should have gone with my suggestion of depicting Euron in his most iconic scene: drunk and naked but for an eye-patch and a cloak decorously covering the family jewels, a wine cup in hand.
And now here we are, encountering another sort of ground zero — this one economic — and my house is stacked with photocopied short stories whose paper clips fall to the floor after being decorously pulled at by the tiny teeth of cats.
Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters.
Those curious, consulting the yellowed files of the newspapers, can read little protests -- signed with _nom de plumes_ -- from young women, complaining that young men of their acquaintance, after calling decorously on them, would cross quite openly to the house over the way.