How to Use decorous in a Sentence

decorous

adjective

• Its decorous leaves are not even an inch long.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 Mar. 2026
• Among the criers were some of the least decorous people in the country.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 4 Dec. 2023
• Among the criers were some of the least decorous people in the country.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Mar. 2024
• Which is not to say Chiapponi is hung up on decorous good taste.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
• Who decides what’s decorous and what’s vulgar?
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
• The courtroom scenes in Part 3 are decorous but then out of control.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 28 June 2018
• This year’s contests, by contrast, are a more decorous affair.
  — oregonlive, 9 May 2023
• State of Union was about as decorous as a junior high school cafeteria.
  — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Shawn was formal and decorous, in contrast to Ross’s bluster.
  — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2021
• Is there any decorous way to acknowledge my failure to do so over the past few years and to express my regret?
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
• Nowhere did spontaneity seem ready to burst through the surfaces of the decorous and promotional cheer.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• That piece opens with a decorous six-note gesture, which leads into an initial thematic statement.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• The vote, shown on national television, was a decorous, solemn affair.
  — Krishan Francis, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Over the millennia, the flute has come to be seen as delicate, decorous, ethereal.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• 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
• At the time, this decorous attire was standard at bowling alleys, where women often wore dresses or skirts.
  — Gabe Bullard, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2024
• The hearings are usually decorous affairs, where anger is routine but controlled.
  — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• The ever-decorous Barnes, reached by phone Wednesday, said that she was honored to be recognized.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 31 May 2018
• Mark Kelly Politicians have perfectly legal and decorous ways to cash in.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 30 June 2023
• But such disagreements tended to be handled with the decorous language of diplomacy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This is a lovely, if rather decorous and reverent, tale of an illicit affair that’s unlikely to cause as much noise as Dhont’s last two films.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
• 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
• But for one moment, that all can perhaps be set aside in order to take in an exquisite and decorous pageant inimitably crafted by one of the planet’s oldest monarchies.
  — Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023