Decorum
[dɪ'kɔːrəm] or [dɪ'kɔrəm]
Definition
(n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Decency, propriety, seemliness, appropriate behavior.
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Examples
- The decorum or indecorum of a quality, with regard to the age, or character, or station, contributes also to its praise or blame. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In all points of decorum _your_ conduct must be law to the rest of the party. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Regardless of decorum, you are prepared to fly in the face of propriety. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Sir Pitt that pattern of decorum, Sir Pitt who had led off at missionary meetings--he never for one moment thought of not going too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And with good right may they go before us--forget not, said the Prior Aymer, the superior decency and decorum of their manners. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is the only means of maintaining that distance which the reserve of English manners and the decorum of English families exact. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Such was our daily life on board the ship--solemnity, decorum, dinner, dominoes, devotions, slander. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His sense of decorum is strict. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Mr. Hawley's mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his awful language, was formidable in its curtness and self-possession. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This decorum depends, in a great measure, upon experience. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Pray let us proceed with more decorum. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Sir, said Mr. Shelby, if you wish to communicate with me, you must observe something of the decorum of a gentleman. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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