(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I know all the famous stories regarding this novel's battles against censorship, and certainly there are later chapters of the book that intentionally push the boundaries of social decorum, but nothing like that was in my first chapter of the adaptation" – as far as they have currently got with their ongoing project.
(2) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
(3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
(4) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
(5) Why is she wearing that crap?” asked one, revealing the level of abuse targeted at Watson for any hint of self-possession or decorum.
(6) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
(7) Nonetheless, even though most of the pleasures in life were beyond their reach, these New England women took great pride in what little they had and put great stock in a particular dress, bonnet, or tea service that enabled them to maintain a sense of dignity and decorum in the face of great adversity.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Kenneth MacMillan was a working-class boy who went to the top of the elite world of ballet, roughing up its conventional decorum with works featuring tortured psyches, damaged sexualities and a string of outsiders and misfits.
(9) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
(10) From Hippocrates ("Prognostic") to the hellenistic period ("Decorum"), we note an important change as to the revelation of a bad prognosis: Hippocrates advocates the blunt information of the patient when there is no hope for him; but his follower in a later century takes into consideration the patient's psychology.
(11) The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum.
(12) But the students who directly protest the tightening of these screws are condemned for their lack of political decorum.
(13) Aidan Dunne, for example, reviewing the exhibition in Dublin in 2007, recognised how a single blonde model, "unmistakably" herself, in 1966 led Freud to push "the bounds of decorum in terms of mainstream depictions of the human body considered not as a generic type but as, to use his own term, a 'naked portrait'".
(14) I am not sure Sir Alan has got the hang of grim austerity and quiet decorum.
(15) He doesn't show us sex, but it's always there, under the nightclothes of decorum.
(16) While Brad Pitt may get knickers left in his pocket, there is more decorum around the royals.
(17) Which makes me wonder: if philosophy is to be more "gender friendly", do philosophers have first to act, well, if not in more "ladylike" fashion, then at least with greater decorum?
(18) Even in Jerusalem on market days when I went to that place before I was married there had always been a gravity, a sense of people doing business who meant business, or preparing themselves with due decorum for the Sabbath.
(19) formulation at pH 11 for 2 h increases its potency against S. decorum larvae, suggesting an effect of an extralarval alkaline hydrolysis on the B.t.i.
(20) Decorum, maturity and tactfully quiet understanding must be maintained.
Seemliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being seemly: comeliness; propriety.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Martyn’s name began trending on Twitter, Dan Hett’s response was a masterclass in sombre seemliness: “He would, I think it’s safe to say, be fucking loving this.” The next day, Mariah Carey had posted a picture of Martyn in a Mariah Carey T-shirt , accompanied by a devastated quote about the death of a member of her fandom.
(2) He adds that he is very pleased the former director of archive content, Roly Keating , returned his payout and says he hopes that other bosses "with an appropriate sense of seemliness" will consider doing the same thing.