Crossword clues for decorousness
decorousness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decorous \Dec"or*ous\ (d[e^]k"[-o]r*[u^]s or d[-e]*k[=o]"r[u^]s; 277), a. [L. dec[=o]rus, fr. decor comeliness, beauty; akin to decere. See Decent, and cf. Decorum.] Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
A decorous pretext the war.
--Motley.
-- De*co"rous*ly, adv. -- De*co"rous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being decorous.
WordNet
Usage examples of "decorousness".
One after another they glide in, with an always conscious air, swagger off to the bar, strike attitudes in groups, one with his legs spread, another with a foot behind on tiptoe, another leaning against the counter, and so pose, and drink "My respects"--all rather solemn and stiff, impressed perhaps by the decorousness of the place, and conscious of their good clothes.
That decorousness, that brightness, melted off what lay behind, as frosty dew melts off grass.
It was like dragging a hideous shape of death into the cleanly and cheerful space before a household fire, where it would present all the uglier aspect, amid the decorousness of everything about it.
He was probably the eldest of the group at nearly forty (no one knew Theras's age), with that ageless maturity Deltans acquire for public decorousness and shed like a second skin for sex play.
In his training, decorousness was the essence of a wedding, except for the shoes-and-rice moment at the very end, but the Medzice Jews-though arrayed in their best, the women in velvet dresses and the men in black satin coats or formal city clothes did not seem to know what decorum was.