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Recent Examples of decorous 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 At home, the atmosphere was decorous, curious, gentle; outside, the culture of the nineteen-fifties was tougher, valorizing war and papering over a darker, more furtive kind of violence. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025 When Elon Musk rewrote Twitter's old content rules for X, the platform's never-decorous conversations deteriorated further. Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 8 Jan. 2025 Aside from a series of gruesome martyr scenes frescoed on the interior wall of the second ring in the late 16th century, the décor reflects late Imperial taste for decorous abstraction and costly materials. David Laskin, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for decorous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decorous
Adjective
  • From a software engineering perspective, being polite is a waste of resources.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • Just be polite and point out the issue at checkout.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Try asking the same question in different ways: formal versus casual, with different cultural references, or from different perspectives.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
  • The Commission on Fine Arts has not received any formal proposals this year for a new use for the building or its property, Luebke said.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • Women being dismissed by their healthcare providers is another culprit, says Tran, and without proper exams and X-rays, the disease goes undetected.
    Marnie Goodfriend, Flow Space, 25 July 2025
  • The trooper found no proper registration for the vehicle.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Passover is a ceremonious occasion to rejoice in Judaism, especially during the first family meal or Seder, according to britannica.com.
    Chris Sims, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Once RiRi and the baby made a ceremonious second entrance to the show, the ‘defile’ finally began at 10:35.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Reeling from scandals in the 1870s, baseball’s owners consciously sought to make the sport respectable by broadening its upper- and middle-class fan-base.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 23 July 2025
  • Despite that streak ending, Swag had a more than respectable opening, debuting with 163,000 overall units on 198.77 million streams, per Billboard.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • And, the embroidery on the pillowcases adds a nice touch.
    Shalwah Evans, People.com, 14 July 2025
  • The units also vary in shape: the cube is nice for nightstands, while the wider grand size works well on large dressers.
    Jamie Fischer, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • One factor that now seems to ensure a satisfactory resolution for both parties is the resurrection of the NFL’s interest in taking an equity stake in ESPN, rumors of which first began circulating in early 2024.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 25 July 2025
  • The plane’s fuel was tested and found to be of satisfactory quality, and no significant bird activity is observed in the vicinity of the flight path, according to the report.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • Those who bet on Shohei Ohtani to get the first hit of the game were correct.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Even if this prediction turns out to be correct, though, the economy will have lagged behind during the first half of the year.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 July 2025

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“Decorous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decorous. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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