Sentence examples for the decorum from inspiring English sources

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the decorum

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Appropriate social behavior; propriety

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"That is uncharacteristic of the club and the decorum in which the employees carry themselves," he tells me.

The judge who set the decorum order?

That's not the decorum of the floor?

"Maybe I didn't know the decorum.

"We have to keep the decorum as best we can".

And she didn't observe the decorum of the place.

The decorum of English joking couldn't be more different.

The decorum of this election has been much higher than anything in America for decades.

Thus the decorum of these quietly quivering words: "satisfy," "acceptable," "persuade," "reasonable".

It is beneath the decorum and dignity of the United States Senate.

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The sex could have been feral, a chance to snap the decorum that rules elsewhere, instead of which the bedroom looks as well behaved as a cocktail lounge.

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