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单词 decorous
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Examplesofdecorous

decorous
Moreover, he did not provide prescriptions fordecorousbuilding.
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But thisdecorousplay of identity, you remember, has also been pleasurable.
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This representational field was secular, educated, publiclydecorous, privately moral, and centered around the individual and family.
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The rise of politeness placed a new premium ondecorousconversation and refined display of persons and things.
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Despite thedecorousmaternal joy expressed in this interpolated lyric, the larger poem is a thoroughgoing critique of marriage that also models solidarity among women.
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The body is the overarching concept, in that the harmonious arrangement of parts - its symmetry - was the model for thedecorousinterrelationship of doors and windows.
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Assume that both philosophers can be persuaded to insert some extra eating periods into their sequences (or, as an equivalent but lessdecorouspossibility, to delete some thinking periods).
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He takes seriously the ' conversation ' in ' criminal conversation ', contending that the very rise of ' criminal conversation ' cases bears the stamp of the fashion for thinking aboutdecoroussociability.
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Sometimes one can use it of a grown-up, saying that he should act in a generallydecorousmanner, not go to excess, restrain himself.
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Surely we should be surprised that, on the whole, we maintain suchdecorousstandards of public behaviour at any age.
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The aeroplane without greater speed is only a little more dangerous and lessdecorousthan a horse and cart.
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This wording as least, has the merit that it is, constitutionally, moredecorous, as has been pointed out.
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I hope that he will now maintain adecoroussilence.
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If so, it would be moredecorousif they stood up and said so instead of disguising their views.
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Surely it is better to have adecorousperiod of six months.
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