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All decorum was lost in the classroom.decorum = proper manners and conduct
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She insists upon decorum and civility at her meetings.decorum = proper manners
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There is still a chance to preserve protocol and decorum. (source)decorum = manners and conduct considered to be proper
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That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum. (source)
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The slightest breach in decorum would find the perpetrator kicked off on the side of the road, no matter where we were. (source)decorum = proper manners and conduct
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Free of all confusion, Eri now sleeps decorously in her bed. (source)decorously = in a manner considered to be proper
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She is a lady I have watched with the greatest admiration. Soul of fidelity, decorum. (source)decorum = proper manners and conduct
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She wore her decorous dresses to morning mass, and around her neck displayed the short single strand of pearls she had received on her fifteenth birthday. (source)decorous = considered proper and in good taste
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We courted decorously, not like Dede and Jaimito, two little puppies you constantly have to watch over so they don't get into trouble—Mama has been telling me the stories. (source)decorously = with manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste
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Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick and the tock of life carried on.† (source)indecorous = improper or rudestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorous means not and reverses the meaning of decorous. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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This piece of indecorum was told to his master, and the overseer was ordered to re-chain him.† (source)indecorum = a lack of manners and proper conductstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorum means not and reverses the meaning of decorum. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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She feels quick frustration while just then a memory of bygone decorums (bonjour, Cracow!)† (source)
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The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.† (source)indecorously = in a manner that is improper or rudestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in indecorously means not and reverses the meaning of decorously. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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It was like dragging a hideous shape of death into the cleanly and cheerful space before a household fire, where it would present all the uglier aspect, amid the decorousness of everything about it.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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—she saw with surprise ... Magnus Bane ... was being the model of decorum. (source)decorum = proper manners and conduct
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Suddenly she came upon a stout gentleman in a silk hat and a chaste black coat, whose decorous row of buttons reached from his chin to his knees. (source)decorous = proper and in good taste
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