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
The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
Mutu’s dark gray, more decorously composed figure is covered in a kind of solid bubble armor and partially draped in cloth that seems continuous with her body.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
Things started out decorously enough but deteriorated into unprecedented pandemonium.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
