How To Use Decorously In A Sentence
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Auntly devotion must go decorously unvoiced, but it is no less compelling for that.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker.
Israel Potter
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Most are blackish brown with a white fringe of hair decorously surrounding the face.
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It can flourish only when there are still occasional pockets of the population who behave well – that is to say courteously, decorously and without leaving glistening lumps ofphlegm wherever they go – to replenish the stocks during the day.
Lucy Mangan: The sound of the suburbs
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She arranged her skirts decorously and, mere seconds later, the butler entered the parlour and presented Mr Brown-Lee to the group.
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Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet.
Rational Review
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Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet.
Rational Review
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Moriah, over which Essec her husband's brother lorded; and him she addressed decorously, as one does address a ruler of the capel.
My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
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In private, with his girlfriend, he behaved decorously, and kept his effusions for his dog.
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he pretended to be pleased and applauded decorously
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It gave ladies the chance to make good use of the hatboxes in which their creations had been delivered, by propping them decorously over the top of their triumphs of the milliner's art.
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Steve and I and several passengers step downstairs to investigate, and stumble into a full-blown birthday bash, rich with cranberry juice and vodka, dancing, banjo strumming, serenading, and Ilona, standing decorously in the center of it all in a white dress soaking in the spotlight.
Richard Bangs: Mind Sex with Strangers
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The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and cothurn might again be assumed with effect; when a grave and conventional personage might decorously make his appearance to perform an interlude of clemency and moderation with satisfactory results.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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A servant was hovering decorously behind them.
