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decorum
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  • That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.  (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nothing seemed too indecorous as long as the tick and the tock of life carried on.†  (source)
    indecorous = improper or rude
    standard 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.
  • 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 conduct
    standard 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.
  • She feels quick frustration while just then a memory of bygone decorums (bonjour, Cracow!)†  (source)
  • The audience behaved indecorously, as if the concert were an informal dress rehearsal.†  (source)
    indecorously = in a manner that is improper or rude
    standard 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.
  • 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.
  • —she saw with surprise ... Magnus Bane ... was being the model of decorum.  (source)
    decorum = proper manners and conduct
  • 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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