How to Use decorous in a Sentence

decorous

adjective

• With a southerly breeze moving at a decorous pace, Washington seemed absolved from the need for protective winter gear and garments.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
• Yates draws a decorous curtain around the rest of the scene.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2023
• Among the criers were some of the least decorous people in the country.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• The courtroom scenes in Part 3 are decorous but then out of control.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• In a leather half-booth, in the emptiest bar in the city, there is no impetus to be decorous.
  — John Cotter, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Tiki torches held aloft, Unite the Right exposed cracks in the town’s decorous façade.
  — Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The year before, things had been slightly less decorous.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2018
• Which is not to say Chiapponi is hung up on decorous good taste.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
• State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria.
  — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• Shawn was formal and decorous, in contrast to Ross’s bluster.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
• The proceedings, which took place a few blocks away, after lunch, were more decorous but more alarming.
  — David Rohde, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2019
• In fact, the shapes their bodies make are to the decorous postures of adults as children’s halting speech is to adult fluency.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
• Beside him, his wife wore a powder blue Ralph Lauren suit and matching gloves, her hair in a decorous twist.
  — New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
• Both are covered with moss and studded with Phalaenopsis in a decorous but eye-catching range of whites and pinks.
  — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Nowhere did spontaneity seem ready to burst through the surfaces of the decorous and promotional cheer.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• This year’s contests, by contrast, are a more decorous affair.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2023
• The ever-decorous Barnes, reached by phone Wednesday, said that she was honored to be recognized.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• The people in this brief clip, many of them children – the boys horsing around, the girls more decorous in their patterned dresses – are like phantoms reaching out to us across the vales of time.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2022
• Over the millennia, the flute has come to be seen as delicate, decorous, ethereal.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• But if that wasn’t her reaction to an A-lister throwing hands at the most performatively decorous event of the year, then what caused the face-crack?
  — Vulture, 28 Mar. 2022
• The job that Nancy Pelosi is leaving is called Speaker of the House, but her interpretation of the role has never had much to do with decorous speech.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2022
• John Harnage danced the stand-alone role of the knight-like young man who remains apart from his squire-like companions, whose dashing moves frame his more decorous presence.
  — Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
• The expression on the face of the resident first cellist, who had every right to expect the gig, is a study in decorous disappointment.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2022
• The vote, shown on national television, was a decorous, solemn affair.
  — Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
• Mark Kelly Politicians have perfectly legal and decorous ways to cash in.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 30 June 2023
• Phipps was responsible for dealing with Beckham’s mountains of fan mail during his tenure at the club — not all of it decorous.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
• That ludicrously crimson, aromatic oil shows up in the final dish twofold: first, in the dumpling filling itself, then in a decorous drizzle atop the soup.
  — Eric Kim, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• That piece opens with a decorous six-note gesture, which leads into an initial thematic statement.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• And starting in 1565, after years of criticism that deemed the naked figures of the Last Judgment obscene, decorous draperies were painted over their genitals.
  — New York Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• When tabloid-style news of this event broke in the usually decorous Financial Times on Wednesday, the recoil was immediate.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 25 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024