decorously

Example Sentences

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Her confidante immediately hastens off to write “The Tears of the Comet,” an allegorical tale that decorously recasts certain incidents from his stay.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

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

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

A team of scientists recently discovered a parasitic and tarantula-killing species of worm, which have been decorously named "Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi" after Daniels and his spider-killing character.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

I would never dispute Miss Butterworth’s historical significance, but, to my taste, the three novels in which she stars are decorously dull.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Things started out decorously enough but deteriorated into unprecedented pandemonium.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly