Decorum is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DECORUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) proper behaviour
• behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety
• etiquette
• particular requirements of good taste and propriety.
• suitability to the requirements of a person, rank, or occasion.
• polite and socially correct behaviour
• Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one\'s own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
• propriety in manners and conduct
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• conformity to social conventions

Words related to DECORUM

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Words that contain DECORUM

decorums13 indecorum14 indecorums15

How to use DECORUM in a sentence

• For the attainment of this ultimate verbal decorum we should have to possess knowledge almost unbounded, together with unerring artistic instinct.
• There are negroes in Spanish America who have reached the highest grades of the army, and who show as much intelligence, decorum, and dignity in command as white men could do.
• I believe there are few societies where there is better conversation or more decorum.
• But Russian morality is of a much higher character than it was, and the members of the reigning house are models of decorum, and know how to defer to opinion.
• All conducted themselves with the strictest propriety and decorum, retiring to their homes soberly and in proper season.
• Converts not infrequently lent new force in the pulpit, but at the risk of substituting an eager missionary spirit for the usual staid decorum of the old families.
• The congratulations, the feast, and all went off with fitting decorum in the usual way.
• The prize is swallowed, and the old man, forgetting all decorum, and only thinking of his loss, calls his companion a pig, which in France is always an insult.
• The account here given is but a fair specimen of the solemnity and decorum of an Antigua sabbath.
• She straightway hinted to her niece, whom she loved as her own child, that dignity and decorum required them to leave the abbey at once.
• Whilst revelry was the order of the day within our hut, the elements without seemed desirous of celebrating the occasion with equal emphasis and greater decorum.
• Congreve was pardoned for his breaches of decorum, and Dryden was looked upon as quite proper enough for all purposes.
• It was only the common usage on such occasions, and not considered any violation whatsoever of decorum.
• Ferdinand, however, conducted with a decorum which should be recorded to his honor.
• I saw her hand hesitate as her sense of decorum overtook her pity and seemed to reason with it.
• But I find myself unable to manage it with decorum.
• We question if the operation of any motive, however powerful, could have been pleaded with propriety, in apology for a breach of theatrical decorum, so gross, and so unnatural.
• I have just seen dear Washington Irving, and it required all my sense of decent decorum to prevent my throwing my arms round his neck, he looked so like a bit of home, England.
• The great house, with its stillness and decorum, oppressed her.
• Thus far the utmost decorum was observed, but for want of some proper person to take care of her body, this melancholy scene became still more shocking to human nature.
• He wrote of his gilded boys and girls as if average decorum existed only to be shocked.
• He believed, however, that the President must guard his office from the free-and-easy want of decorum which some of his countrymen regarded as the stamp of democracy.
• As soon as they were deemed to be beyond the danger of rescue, they were treated with the utmost indulgence and decorum.
• The young women danced with great spirit, and with an absence of all shyness, but still with the greatest decorum.
• Strong was marching along with an unearthly decorum that should have made Fairfax suspicious.
• There is a dignity, in general, in the Quaker-conversation, arising from the nature of these subjects, and from the gravity and decorum with which it is always conducted.
• Philip, in proclaiming his glorious advent for the good of mankind, explained it with a decorum that had a fascinating flavour.
• He was of pleasing presence of distinguished decorum, and chivalrous manner.
• There seemed no decorum she did not know how to observe with the most natural grace.

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