Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Decency or propriety of behavior.
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- noun The state or quality of being
decorous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun propriety in manners and conduct
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Examples
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Having grown in an elegant Reform congregation, prayer was for me a matter of majesty and decorousness, which is to say from my perspective, boring.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: High Holidays and the Gifts One Generation Gives The Next Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson 2011
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Maslin on Audition by Barbara Walters: If any single thing keeps 'Audition' from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's 'Personal History,' the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Which do you think should pay greatest attention to the decorousness of his appearance in the delivery of a speech?
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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Here's the point -- I think the middle-brow decorousness of Times editors gets in the way of cultural truths.
Susan Braudy: Elvis's Army Fatigues Survive the Malibu Wildfires 2008
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I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.
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Which do you think should pay greatest attention to the decorousness of his appearance in the delivery of a speech?
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.
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The Democratic leadership and the liberal intelligentsia seemed pathetic and exhausted, wedded to musty ideals of bipartisanship and decorousness.
Jay Rosen: Printing Press Progressives at Mother Jones Try to Debunk the Political Web 2008
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I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.
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But I think decorousness plays at least a small role in the usefulness of blog reviews, particularly when it comes to using quotes that go on the front and back covers of books.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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