Example Sentences

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I wonder if perhaps the pendulum has swung a little too far toward decorousness; the contestants, the jewelry, the judging, the editing, even the eliminations are all tentative, bordering on withdrawn.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Despite her complaints about rude reporters, Sanders might not actually be hoping for more decorousness from the press corps.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2018

On the recording each party did its best not to let its decorousness get in the way.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2010

For one, the Supreme Court is a place of exceeding decorousness.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2010

It was like dragging a hideous shape of death into the cleanly and cheerful space before a household fire, where it would present all the uglier aspect, amid the decorousness of everything about it.

From House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel