Sentence examples for lacking decorum from inspiring English sources

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She is a strange mixture: both austere and bohemian, having lived a life not without its louche elements but never lacking decorum.

Further, lacking decorum and discipline, Trump exhibits only a dim understanding of domestic and foreign relations.

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Shakespeare lacked decorum, in Dryden's view, largely because he had written for an ignorant age and poorly educated audiences.

Rivers lacked decorum, which is a fancy way to say she believed in cursing in public.

The Irish were redoubtable duellists, but so lacking in decorum when potting each other that, in 1777, delegates from five counties assembled to hammer out the Irish Code Duello.

Trump has long complained about reporters asking him questions at photo opportunities, especially when he is in the presence of foreign leaders; aides have said he views it as disrespectful and lacking in decorum.

It is not uncommon to watch a party in court so lacking in decorum, that his arguments are completely undermined.

Many of his contemporaries thought he lacked the decorum required in a gentleman, let alone a leading aristocrat.

His audience was the rest of Europe, and many of the politicians listening to him were already worried that he lacked the decorum to guide the Continent.

The letter, which lacks the decorum traditionally found in such political correspondence, evokes the scrappy, street-fighting tone of Mr. Paladino's primary campaign, which galvanized conservative crowds and Tea Party affiliates but remains untested among moderate voters.

THEY'RE noticeably lacking in the kind of decorum that teachers are supposed to have.

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