decorous - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • manner: Today the cows carry out a similar function in a rather more decorous manner.
  • woman: In yet other contexts, replicated on jewelry, her image might betoken the beautiful, enlightened, decorous woman.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: In these coffee-houses, however, there generally prevails a very decorous stillness and silence.

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