improprietyformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Manners & levels of formality
button-down
buttoned-up
casualization
ceremonious
ceremoniously
formally
genteelly
genteelness
gentility
grace
ground rules
non-U
not the done thingidiom
over-familiar
propriety
pukka
solemnity
valediction
valedictory
without ceremony

decorum | American Dictionary

decorum
noun[ U ]
 fmlus/dɪˈkɔr·əm, -ˈkoʊr·əm/
behavior that is socially correct, calm, and polite:
The witness endured the lawyer’s badgering with remarkable decorum.

Examples of decorum

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The implications of decorum have varied significantly over time as has the kind of action it has been used to justify.
The second phase, the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, sees decorum isolated and codified.
Maintaining regal decorum, she is nearly always in control of her emotions - and of her voice.
From a historical point of view, a recognition of decorum thus reinvests buildings with their appropriate social and intellectual context.
The governing idea in most seventeenth-century discussions of preaching styles is rhetorical decorum.
Rhetorical decorum, however, tolerates what is unauthorised, unprecedented, and unnatural for the sake of effective communication.
First, there is the problem of rules and appropriateness: decorum is outside art.
What is more, he was reported to have subverted school decorum by mocking his fellow teachers and making light of the school's activities.
At the individual hotel level, hospitality is ' managed ' in order to maintain the decorum and privacy which underlie acceptable social relations in public.
Moreover, apart from the odd direct reference, decorum in particular is difficult to isolate in the period's architectural treatises.
Her text falls into place alongside recent studies of the issue of decorum in medieval art, and of aesthetic multiplicity.
An institution of this nature, conducted with proper decorum is truly rational.
Yet despite the trend of theory, architects of the mid-nineteenth century continued a practicable observance of decorum in their designs.
The present authors would identify conformità with decorum.
In effect, decorum meant propriety, which of course is how the word may be translated.
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