DECORUM in a Sentence
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18 example sentences for DECORUM, such as:
1. Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.
2. Keeping public decorum is an important factor in media credibility.
3. I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
4. They were formal housewives, most of them, with a severe sense of decorum.
5. He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
2. Keeping public decorum is an important factor in media credibility.
3. I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
4. They were formal housewives, most of them, with a severe sense of decorum.
5. He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
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Meanings and Examples of DECORUM
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decorum
n. propriety in manners and conduct; good taste in manners; conventions or requirements of polite behavior
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
2 In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting.
3 Whether by shock, disgust, joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were freed from their years of social decorum.
4 Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
5 They were formal housewives, most of them, with a severe sense of decorum.
6 Sir," said Mr. Shelby, "if you wish to communicate with me, you must observe something of the decorum of a gentleman.
7 He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
8 I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity.
9 He was glad that all hostility was at an end with Vronsky, and the sense of peace, decorum, and comfort never left him.
10 Some ladies, with faces betraying complete forgetfulness of all the rules of decorum, pushed forward to the detriment of their toilets.
11 The Emperor moved forward evidently wishing to end the conversation, but the flushed and excited Italian, oblivious of decorum, followed him and continued to speak.
12 He stood a little behind the governor and held himself with military decorum through the service, meditating on a great variety of subjects.
13 With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum.
14 She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
15 Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.
Example Sentence:
1 Keeping public decorum is an important factor in media credibility.
2 I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.