Decorous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECOROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• marked by propriety and good taste
• in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained
• polite, calm, and sensible in behaviour
• Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
• characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct
• according with custom or propriety
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• proper

Words related to DECOROUS

decorously16 decorousness15 decorousnesses17

Words that contain DECOROUS

decorously16 indecorous13 decorousness15 indecorously18 decorousnesses17 indecorousness17 indecorousnesse18 indecorousnesses19

How to use DECOROUS in a sentence

• Decorous, demure, sedate, sober, staid, prim, proper.
• Thus far, however, all had been rigidly decorous, though the strong feelings that were glowing in the bosoms of both, had been so completely suppressed.
• The court became very decorous, if it was hypocritical.
• The behaviour of the princes was very decorous and lively.
• They got out together, sailed on the same ship for America and in the autumn of that year, here in Chicago, in the most decorous manner in the world, John married her.
• There, as in most British towns, women bathed at one part of the beach, men at the other, and all in the most decorous and modest of costumes.
• The blinds were still down, and the house looked so decorous and innocent in its age.
• I had taken no interest in politics, but had unconsciously reflected more or less the decorous Whiggism which had always surrounded me.
• That is why our talk about them should be as decorous as their silence.
• Religion they attended with that decorous sense of decency which always results from a sincere perception of its obligations and influence.
• This, though it was penitence too late, was at least decorous language.
• All thy life hast thou had the decorous laws of the ritual before thee.
• Although it was immensely decorous, it reminded him of Cynthia.
• The rebuked incumbent could so little comprehend these decorous scruples that he supposed Mr.
• Sympathetic, outwardly decorous, keenly sensitive, full of pity for the suffering, New York enters the field of art in a purely mercantile spirit.
• It is not very easy to confront, with decorous composure, the sudden apparition of the person on earth that one would have least liked to see.
• Indeed, the whole proceedings are more decorous and respectful, the bidding, half the time, being carried on in a low conversational tone.
• I cannot say that it is very decorous of you to go wandering about in such a fashion.
• CHAPTER XV We dashed home to get news of Diana, and it was a relief to find everything decorous and apparently serene at the house.
• She had four handsome, decorous, well-freckled children, two boys, two girls.
• When the lady of the house appeared, Uncle James was sitting at one end of the piazza and Ruth at the other, exchanging decorous commonplaces.
• Sculpture, too, becomes more refined and decorous in its representations.
• Instead of making his bow and then beating the decorous retreat of an eccentric recluse, Mr.
• It is not so decorous, in respect of God, that he should immediately do all the meanest and triflingest things himself, without making use of any inferior or subordinate minister.
• It is not clear whether in England we learned those grand and decorous principles and manners, of which considerable traces yet remain, from you, or whether you took them from us.

Similar words containing COROU without suffix s and without prefix de

rancorous11 decorously16 indecorous13 rancorously16 decorousness15 indecorously18 rancorousness15 decorousnesses17 indecorousness17 rancorousnesses17 indecorousnesse18 indecorousnesses19

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