adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Above the decorous chat, the familiar bray of Peregrine's voice could be heard.
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He frequently attended church, and demanded strict attention and decorous behaviour from his court while at worship.
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It was normal for women to write about love, but they were expected always to be decorous .
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Naturally no expression of that shows through the decorous playfulness of her letters to him.
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Safe Home Counties seats in the 50s wanted decorous ex-public schoolboys.
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The Galleries will bridge the snarling ring road, which will be buried in decorous tunnels.
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The man had never behaved towards her in other than a friendly and decorous way; nevertheless, she burned.
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Two days later a more decorous visitor called.