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is decorum
noun
Appropriate social behavior; propriety
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Lorelai is livid, but she's still at her parent's second wedding and there is decorum to follow.
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There must be decorum at the White House". This wasn't a statement of acquiescence.
I mean — what about Mrs. Nixon?! Might it have been decorum on the authors' part, not to reveal what she did?
"There must be decorum at the White House," the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, says after a federal judge ordered the reinstatement of the CNN journalist's press pass.
There's decorum for trashing people on Twitter, and Watson didn't follow it.
That's decorum on the floor of the House that shouldn't have happened".
The maxi skirt Another staple of 1970s fashion, the maxi is bringing decorum back to our wardrobes.
Thank goodness the commissioner is enforcing decorum before these things escalate and pay-per-view operators get involved.
Remember to use your magic words "Please" and "Thank-you", it is standard decorum, however sometimes people do forget when they are out of their comfort zones.
It was excessive decorum, as if the very mention of family might be insulting to our grieving hostess.
There was comparable decorum displayed by the ousted MPs.
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