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decorousness

NOUN
  1. propriety in manners and conduct

How To Use decorousness In A Sentence

  • Here's the point -- I think the middle-brow decorousness of Times editors gets in the way of cultural truths. Susan Braudy: Elvis's Army Fatigues Survive the Malibu Wildfires
  • The Democratic leadership and the liberal intelligentsia seemed pathetic and exhausted, wedded to musty ideals of bipartisanship and decorousness. Jay Rosen: Printing Press Progressives at Mother Jones Try to Debunk the Political Web
  • He took it with him into the streets, galleries, beaches and bars he frequented, shedding the uptight decorousness that verse in the 1950s and '60s was expected to have.
  • Stolid brick houses with bay windows and big gardens exude an air of decorousness and prosperity.
  • But I think decorousness plays at least a small role in the usefulness of blog reviews, particularly when it comes to using quotes that go on the front and back covers of books. Archive 2007-06-01
  • Maslin on Audition by Barbara Walters: If any single thing keeps 'Audition' from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's 'Personal History,' the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
  • I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover. John McQuaid: A Fist-Bump for the New Yorker
  • For all the decorousness of her music and songs, it's her voice that conveys the deepest sense of wonder and truly sells these songs.
  • The kids sat down, and within a moment all were in a state resembling decorousness.
  • It appears as if it is the mark of nobility, decorousness and civicness for a people, society or nation to make laws by which to govern themselves.
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