DECORUM in a Sentence

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Whether by shock, disgust, joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were freed from their years of social decorum.

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 Meanings and Examples of DECORUM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
decorum
 n.  propriety in manners and conduct; good taste in manners; conventions or requirements of polite behavior
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  She had been raised in the bedroom of Solange Robillard, Ellen O'Hara's mother, a dainty, cold, high-nosed French-woman, who spared neither her children nor her servants their just punishment for any infringement of decorum.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Whether by shock, disgust, joy of combat, or physical activity, all the party were freed from their years of social decorum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  They were formal housewives, most of them, with a severe sense of decorum.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
6  Sir," said Mr. Shelby, "if you wish to communicate with me, you must observe something of the decorum of a gentleman.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  He made a joke or two, and talked just as much as was consistent with due decorum, and began work.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
8  I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  He was glad that all hostility was at an end with Vronsky, and the sense of peace, decorum, and comfort never left him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 8
10  Some ladies, with faces betraying complete forgetfulness of all the rules of decorum, pushed forward to the detriment of their toilets.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
11  The Emperor moved forward evidently wishing to end the conversation, but the flushed and excited Italian, oblivious of decorum, followed him and continued to speak.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XI
12  He stood a little behind the governor and held himself with military decorum through the service, meditating on a great variety of subjects.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
13  With the old, he had another part to play, which, when needful, he could sustain with great decorum.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
14  She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
15  Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
Example Sentence:
1  Keeping public decorum is an important factor in media credibility.
2  I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.