Definition of "decorum" []

• Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety: "In the Ireland of the 1940's ... the stolidity of a long, empty, grave face was thought to be the height of decorum and profundity” ( John McGahern). (noun)
• The conventions or requirements of polite behavior: the formalities and decorums of a military funeral. (noun)
• The appropriateness of an element of an artistic or literary work, such as style or tone, to its particular circumstance or to the composition as a whole. (noun)

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• "Is not the cant sometimes on the side of those who are so anxious for what they call decorum?"
• "(world, from an attention to what it calls decorum; and the preferable nature of truth and sincerity) Tj"
• "Was it Mondale who made finger pointing by politicians unclassy, bad manners or lacking in decorum?"