as in etiquette
socially acceptable behavior
high standards of decorum are usually required when attending the opera
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Recent Examples of decorum
That such rhetoric passed without objection is not merely a failure of decorum.
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Isabella Brannon, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Rodriguez was speaking in opposition to a new decorum policy that prohibited profanity.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2025
Aside from the clear lack of decorum, the Trump-Musk feud has turned into an outrageous display of insults and retaliation.
—Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
No one has any personal space, so how would the ghosts of the past have anywhere else to hide, either?
Also making I-Jing’s integration into Taipei life a challenge is her left-handedness, amid a cultural bias that prefers the right hand as much as other arbitrary decorum.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
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Isabella Brannon, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Rodriguez was speaking in opposition to a new decorum policy that prohibited profanity.
—Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 June 2025
Aside from the clear lack of decorum, the Trump-Musk feud has turned into an outrageous display of insults and retaliation.
—Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
No one has any personal space, so how would the ghosts of the past have anywhere else to hide, either?
Also making I-Jing’s integration into Taipei life a challenge is her left-handedness, amid a cultural bias that prefers the right hand as much as other arbitrary decorum.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decorum
Noun
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The dispute between the two golfers was captured on video and appeared to be a matter of golf etiquette.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
28 June 2025
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The latest rules of tipping etiquette include 18 to 20% for services that require a fair amount of effort — waiting tables, delivering food, styling hair, babysitting and driving a rideshare or taxi, for example.—
Katie Kelton,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
Noun
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This is a question of decency, humanity, family and yes, economics.—
Sigal Ratner-Arias,
Billboard,
20 June 2025
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Because Sterling exudes decency as a human being, and this character is so hard and quiet and [an] old-school action hero.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
Noun
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Questions of spectacle and propriety circled the Mütter even then, but Worden’s ample charisma, her confidence in the validity of her own fascination, seemed largely able to keep them at bay.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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But the courts have not yet had an opportunity to weigh in on the question raised by Bonta about the propriety of congress invoking the CRA to revoke such a waiver.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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“Decorum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decorum. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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