decorous

Things were a good deal less decorous in the evening.

His words were strong stuff for the usually decorous Senate.

The language may be more decorous today, but the ideas are the same.

He gave me a decorous bow, arms to his side.

The couple hope that today's ceremony will be more decorous.

She is, however, still pretty much a mystery, and too decorous.

The covering helped; made what she was doing seem more decorous.

It was normal for women to write about love, but they were expected always to be decorous.

Because they had exactly the same blank, decorous little smile.

I have a feeling we're all going to be terribly decorous and nice.

Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.

This decorous group could have been standing in line at a church supper.

You should be able to admit facts even if they do not sound very decorous.

There was something decorous about all of them, yet despairing.

They turned once, twice, their speed a decorous one well within the limit.

He has made his name with the kind of decorous clothes that evoke a story.

There was a decorous knock at the door of their cabin.

In fact, Edward was a good driver, if somewhat decorous.

But she stayed a decorous distance from him as they danced.

There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.

Looked at in that light, it appears a sweet and decorous meal.

She rolled the window back up and drove away at a more decorous speed.

But the music that filled it on Monday night was neither decorous nor small.

There were decorous dances that could have been performed at a ball.

The second half, with music from Thrace, was only slightly more decorous.