Sentences with decorum
de·co·rum
D d - I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
- Literary decorum had perished on the Somme.
- He was quite unable to find weight of voice, to find decorum, the appropriate words for the appropriate mood.
- When they saw Norm, with that shock of white hair and old-world decorum, the others speculated that he might be a retired judge.
- This was championed by Barry, who believed that decorum had to be maintained so far from the mother country.
- Decorum implies stiffness or formality in rules of conduct or behavior established as suitable to the circumstances [levity not in keeping with decorum]; decency implies observance of the requirements of modesty, good taste, etc. [have the decency to thank her]; propriety suggests conformity with conventional standards of proper or correct behavior, manners, etc. [his offensive language oversteps the bounds of propriety]; dignity, in this connection, implies conduct in keeping with one's position or one's self-respect; , etiquette refers to the forms established by convention or prescribed social arbiters for behavior in polite society