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单词 decorum
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Definition of decorum in English:

decorum

noun dɪˈkɔːrəmdəˈkɔrəm
mass noun
  • 1Behaviour in keeping with good taste and propriety.

    he had acted with the utmost decorum
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Parents gave their children privacy to court alone, often removing themselves from the parlor, trusting that decorum would prevent improper behavior.
    • But faith in the classical virtues of decorum and modesty remained with him until his death.
    • Our waitress, who came running after the hotel's front desk clerk saw us wandering around the dining room, was kind enough to observe the proper decorum for two people in our situation.
    • ‘They are patterns of behaviour or patterns of decorum that we all have,’ says MacArthur.
    • She added: ‘When he stood up to questions in court he held himself with dignity and decorum.’
    • There was a certain lack of decorum and taste at the Daily Record last week.
    • But it was the women of the congregation who largely drew up the rules of propriety, decorum and morality, and exercised control or influence over the behaviour of their children.
    • Asked to comment on his prospects for a first full cap, Hughes is coy - it clearly goes against his inherent sense of modesty and decorum.
    • Of course, if you conduct yourself with impeccable taste and decorum, you will soon bore the reporters, and they will stop covering you.
    • I must say that the chairman handled the job with decorum and taste, and with the dignity required of him.
    • She also makes it clear why it was doomed, defying as it does every respectable idea about godly behaviour, sexual decorum, female carnality and nature itself.
    • All Hindu women, respecting customs of decorum and demureness, refrain from drinking alcohol in public.
    • Lowe takes up issues of deportment: the students at both Spelman and Cornell carefully controlled their body movements to display modesty and decorum.
    • By performing the personal in public, talk-show guests transgress the boundaries of behavior and decorum deemed appropriate by middle-class society.
    • Although she is clothed modestly and moves with decorum, her song is about her happy anticipation of her wedding night.
    Synonyms
    propriety, properness, seemliness, decency, decorousness, good taste, correctness, appropriateness, appropriacy
    politeness, courtesy, good manners
    refinement, breeding, deportment, dignity, respectability, modesty, demureness
    1. 1.1 Etiquette.
      he had no idea of funeral decorum
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I prefer my men with a sense of good taste and decorum that you have yet to demonstrate.
      • The entire island was designated a naval base, and villagers were expected to conform to naval standards of hygiene and decorum.
      • Boswell proved, too, surprisingly sure of himself in matters of taste and artistic decorum.
      • He said, ‘In golf, customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play.’
      • Indeed, the decorum and etiquette long associated with the game at all levels seem to be losing ground all too quickly.
      • Some two thousand years later, in addition to guidelines on decorum, the Bible set specific protocol for preparing and consuming food.
      • You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
      • Levis hid behind the conventions and decorum of poetry to disarm his readers and plunder their hearts.
      • The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
      • In Delhi, retaining a customer's forgotten belongings is against business decorum.
      • On the trek across the Sahara it was vital that decorum, etiquette and social graces were left at the airport!
      • Do I think I could contain myself and restrain myself with the proper amount of professional decorum?
      • He showed no respect for party decorum, challenging a sitting Republican president who he felt was too moderate.
      Synonyms
      etiquette, protocol, customary behaviour, good form, custom, convention, conformity, conventionality, usage, ritual
      formalities, niceties, punctilios, politeness
      French politesse
      informal the thing to do
      humorous couth
    2. 1.2decorumsarchaic Particular requirements of good taste and propriety.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale.
      • Eighteenth-century novelists, such as William Goodall in his Adventures of Captain Greenland, frequently invoked Shakespeare as a precursor because he was felt to break literary decorums in much the same way as did the new form.
      • There is a parallel here with sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s, in which criminality lurks beneath the surface decorums of daily life.
      • In this, the volume is representative of current scholarship generally - and with some reason: the earlier decades are certainly less overtly sexy than the later, and more shrouded by those fabled Victorian decorums.
    3. 1.3archaic Suitability to the requirements of a person, rank, or occasion.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since Nabokov showed no sign of responding, one of the witnesses "and he was echt deutsch, real German" tried to hint at the required decorum.

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a literary term, denoting suitability of style): from Latin, neuter of the adjective decorus 'seemly'.

Rhymes

cockalorum, forum, jorum, Karakoram, Karakorum, Mizoram, pons asinorum, quorum
 
 

Definition of decorum in US English:

decorum

noundəˈkɔrəmdəˈkôrəm
  • 1Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.

    you exhibit remarkable modesty and decorum
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She added: ‘When he stood up to questions in court he held himself with dignity and decorum.’
    • Our waitress, who came running after the hotel's front desk clerk saw us wandering around the dining room, was kind enough to observe the proper decorum for two people in our situation.
    • She also makes it clear why it was doomed, defying as it does every respectable idea about godly behaviour, sexual decorum, female carnality and nature itself.
    • All Hindu women, respecting customs of decorum and demureness, refrain from drinking alcohol in public.
    • Of course, if you conduct yourself with impeccable taste and decorum, you will soon bore the reporters, and they will stop covering you.
    • ‘They are patterns of behaviour or patterns of decorum that we all have,’ says MacArthur.
    • But faith in the classical virtues of decorum and modesty remained with him until his death.
    • Parents gave their children privacy to court alone, often removing themselves from the parlor, trusting that decorum would prevent improper behavior.
    • I must say that the chairman handled the job with decorum and taste, and with the dignity required of him.
    • Lowe takes up issues of deportment: the students at both Spelman and Cornell carefully controlled their body movements to display modesty and decorum.
    • There was a certain lack of decorum and taste at the Daily Record last week.
    • Although she is clothed modestly and moves with decorum, her song is about her happy anticipation of her wedding night.
    • Asked to comment on his prospects for a first full cap, Hughes is coy - it clearly goes against his inherent sense of modesty and decorum.
    • By performing the personal in public, talk-show guests transgress the boundaries of behavior and decorum deemed appropriate by middle-class society.
    • But it was the women of the congregation who largely drew up the rules of propriety, decorum and morality, and exercised control or influence over the behaviour of their children.
    Synonyms
    propriety, properness, seemliness, decency, decorousness, good taste, correctness, appropriateness, appropriacy
    1. 1.1 Etiquette.
      he had no idea of funeral decorum
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Levis hid behind the conventions and decorum of poetry to disarm his readers and plunder their hearts.
      • Boswell proved, too, surprisingly sure of himself in matters of taste and artistic decorum.
      • He showed no respect for party decorum, challenging a sitting Republican president who he felt was too moderate.
      • Some two thousand years later, in addition to guidelines on decorum, the Bible set specific protocol for preparing and consuming food.
      • Do I think I could contain myself and restrain myself with the proper amount of professional decorum?
      • In Delhi, retaining a customer's forgotten belongings is against business decorum.
      • On the trek across the Sahara it was vital that decorum, etiquette and social graces were left at the airport!
      • The entire island was designated a naval base, and villagers were expected to conform to naval standards of hygiene and decorum.
      • He said, ‘In golf, customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play.’
      • Indeed, the decorum and etiquette long associated with the game at all levels seem to be losing ground all too quickly.
      • I prefer my men with a sense of good taste and decorum that you have yet to demonstrate.
      • The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
      • You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
      Synonyms
      etiquette, protocol, customary behaviour, good form, custom, convention, conformity, conventionality, usage, ritual
    2. 1.2usually decorumsarchaic A particular requirement of good taste and propriety.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There is a parallel here with sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s, in which criminality lurks beneath the surface decorums of daily life.
      • In this, the volume is representative of current scholarship generally - and with some reason: the earlier decades are certainly less overtly sexy than the later, and more shrouded by those fabled Victorian decorums.
      • Eighteenth-century novelists, such as William Goodall in his Adventures of Captain Greenland, frequently invoked Shakespeare as a precursor because he was felt to break literary decorums in much the same way as did the new form.
      • So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale.
    3. 1.3archaic Suitability to the requirements of a person, rank, or occasion.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Since Nabokov showed no sign of responding, one of the witnesses "and he was echt deutsch, real German" tried to hint at the required decorum.

Origin

Mid 16th century (as a literary term, denoting suitability of style): from Latin, neuter of the adjective decorus ‘seemly’.

 
 
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