decorously

In a 1913 letter, he had put it less decorously: The items in his library were “powder with which to fight our enemies.”

“You see physical changes in people, depending on how things are going,” Mr. Yeo said in his studio, where he had decorously turned the still-unveiled painting away from the gaze of curious visitors.

The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist.

Although neither word is beyond the ordinary, together, they’ve created a Southern California PR bonanza and juggernaut since 1890, when the first decorously decorated carriages hit the midwinter streets of Pasadena.

Remember the decorously offended Victorian lady from Pasadena?