decorously
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈdɛkɹəsli/
Adverb

decorously

  1. In a decorous manner.
    • 1965, James Baldwin, “The Rockpile,” in Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press,
      […] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.



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