Crossword-Solution: DECOROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decorous | a. | 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. |
We have 51 clues for the answer “DECOROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| polite, calm, and sensible in behaviour | 1 answer |
| VIOLATING good taste, propriety (ant.) | 1 answer |
| Showing propriety | 1 answer |
| Showing good manners and taste | 1 answer |
| Correct and polite | 1 answer |
| Marked by dignity and taste | 1 answer |
| civilized | 5 answers |
| CHARACTERIZED BY PROPRIETY AND DIGNITY AND GOOD TASTE IN MANNERS AND CONDUCT | 11 answers |
| Well-behaved | 11 answers |
| Well behaved | 12 answers |
| civilised | 14 answers |
| staid | 17 answers |
| de rigueur | 18 answers |
| prim | 25 answers |
| "Au fait" | 27 answers |
| conformant | 49 answers |
| Notable | 50 answers |
| Tasteful | 54 answers |
| respectable | 54 answers |
| reputable | 54 answers |
| Maidenly | 55 answers |
| seemly | 55 answers |
| Done | 56 answers |
| comely | 58 answers |
| Passable | 58 answers |
| Venerable | 59 answers |
| estimable | 60 answers |
| Befitting | 60 answers |
| creditable | 61 answers |
| Equitable | 61 answers |
| honourable | 62 answers |
| Becoming | 63 answers |
| "Nice!" | 63 answers |
| Moral ___ | 64 answers |
| Dignified | 64 answers |
| Ethical | 64 answers |
| Illustrious | 64 answers |
| ABOVEBOARD | 64 answers |
| Truthful | 66 answers |
| renowned | 69 answers |
| Modest | 69 answers |
| Unadulterated | 71 answers |
| Distinguished | 76 answers |
| Special | 79 answers |
| Chaste | 79 answers |
| Upright | 80 answers |
| Proper | 80 answers |
| Noble | 82 answers |
| Pure | 85 answers |
| Just | 103 answers |
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Sentences with DECOROUS (5)
Finally, little heroic as he was, it seemed more decorous to be overthrown in the downfall of the party with which he had been content to stand than to remain a forlorn survivor, when so many worthier men were falling: and at last, after subsisting for four years on the mercy of a hostile administration, to be compelled then to define his position anew, and claim the yet more humiliating mercy of a friendly one.
Maule’s Lane, or Pyncheon Street, as it were now more decorous to call it, was thronged, at the appointed hour, as with a congregation on its way to church.
The behaviour of the maidens was decorous, if not marked with deep affliction; but now and then a whisper or a smile called forth the rebuke of the severer matrons, and here and there might be seen a damsel more interested in endeavouring to find out how her mourning-robe became her, than in the dismal ceremony for which they were preparing.
The retired dressmaker's tiny room was a marvel of neatness, from the little red table, with its three Gorham spoons laid in exact parallels, to the decorous geraniums and mignonettes growing in the starch box at the window, underneath the fish globe with its one venerable gold fish.
But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
Quotes with DECOROUS (3)
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
And speaking of this wonderful machine:[840] I’m puzzled by the difference between, the kind Which goes on solely in the poet’s mind, A testing of performing words, while he, The other kind, much more decorous, when He’s in his study writing with a pen. In method B the hand supports the thought, The abstract battle is concretely fought. The pen stops in mid-air, then swoops to bar[850] A canceled sunset or restore a star, And thus it physically guides the phrase Toward faint …
She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1971–2014).