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decorousness

/dek-er-uhs, dih-kawr-uhs, -kohr-/US // ˈdɛk ər əs, dɪˈkɔr əs, -ˈkoʊr- //UK // (ˈdɛkərəs) //

装饰性,装潢性,装饰品,装修

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.

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Examples

  • Not for Rodriguez the decorous, red-carpet likes of Gwynnie, Sandra Bullock, or Tom Cruise, but “hot criminal” Jeremy Meeks.

  • In more decorous terms, Manchin and Huntsman came to much the same conclusion.

  • A decorous group of nine panelists presented their positions one at a time, following distinctly un-Israeli rules of etiquette.

  • I never knew him to take his time, squander words to be merely 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.