decorum
IPA: dɪkˈɔrʌm
noun
- (uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.
- (countable) A convention of social behavior.
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Examples of "decorum" in Sentences
- Decorum is what you spit in the face of.
- You are required to maintain the same decorum.
- It will disrupt the decorum of the African American page.
- Decorum and politesse dictate that you opt for the flush.
- By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
- This lack of decorum and procedure is troubling to say the least.
- It demanded decorum and rigorous adherence to the classical unities.
- The picture of course is priceless with Mattachine calling for decorum.
- Fatiha has the perfect confidence and decorum of the lady of the house.
- He talks about the splendor of their Court and the decorum that was maintained.
- But you have to understand that Congress is a place where a certain decorum is expected.
- When one loses an election, the proper decorum is to concede and help the winning candidate.
- Is not the cant sometimes on the side of those who are so anxious for what they call decorum?
- The real 'breach of decorum' is having a Democrat reaching in my wallet every time I turn around.
- Was it Mondale who made finger pointing by politicians unclassy, bad manners or lacking in decorum?
- (world, from an attention to what it calls decorum; and the preferable nature of truth and sincerity) Tj
- I deal with thepanese almost every week and Obama just embarrassed us yet again in front of a country where such lack of decorum is taken very seriously.
- Though it is somewhat difficult to retain decorum about this issue, I must tell you that if anyone had walked into our Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and told us that someday, in this great nation we were founding, citizens would be put in jail for possessing this great herb, we would have laughed them out of the room.