decorous

As president, Obama must be more decorous, of course, than merely mocking the man.

He remembered how decorous and dignified was the Mogul court when Britain paid honor to an ancient dynasty.

His visions of a merry riot were all fled, and he was listening with the eagerness of a decorous Sunday-school child.

Half of the people had taken their seats when he began; there was a hasty scramble, and a decorous, half-checked smile.

The past has come down to us cloaked and shrouded, and attended by its decorous retinue of mutes and bearers.

Let us turn into the British Museum and see sensible, decorous Boxing-day there.