decorum

These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture.

And literary decorum, to elaborate, is almost the opposite of what decorum means in real life, which means etiquette basically.

They thanked him profusely for his public service, apologized for Republican hectoring, and complained about decorum.

At a certain point is past the line of decorum, but, you know, this is New York.

Not to mention violating whatever sense of decorum is left in the halls of Congress.

His present repose and decorum contrasted strangely with the fanciful display at his first introduction.

Different parties of dogs were introduced to each other with an appearance of the greatest decorum.

By the laws of decorum, for instance, old men should be querulous and young boys given to sudden anger.

But he could not transfer to his pictures a decorum and a common sense that had no place in his mind.

Had he pleaded ill-health, he might have done so with decorum.