Decorous definition

The set of friends with whom he chiefly associated at Oxford were sometimes named, on account of their exceptionally decorous conduct, the "Bethel Union"; but he was by no means averse to amusements, and specially delighted in hurdle jumping and hunting.

The tone was decorous and reserved, a moving elegy delivered by someone who didn't know the deceased very well.

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

Mime Necker, despite her talents, her beauty and her fondness for philosophe society, was strictly decorous, somewhat reserved, and disposed to carry out in her daughter's case the rigorous discipline of her own childhood.