Crossword-Solution: DECOROUS 8 letters, 51 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
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
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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
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 House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
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.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
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.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions.
The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

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.
E.M. Forster Howards End
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 …
Vladimir Nabokov Pale Fire
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.
Charles Dickens Hard Times
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