decorous

• The people were staid and decorous, according to their ordinary fashion; and business seemed about as brisk as usual,—though, I suppose, it was considerably diverted from its customary channels into warlike ones. —  Sketches and Studies
• The scene below was much more decorous, the polished table gleaming with silver and crystal in the light of several elaborate candelabra. —  TheCountsBlackmailBargain
• He gives strict rules for the decorous behaviour of ambassadors and all who address themselves to princes, being himself a courtier, and having probably exercised some diplomatic function. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• Both were glad beyond their own understanding over that moment and its tenderness It was all very decorous, and over in a second, but it meant much to remember afterward, that look and hand-clasp I wanted to tell you," he said, tenderly, "how much that story did for me. —  A Voice in the Wilderness
• Circumstances have occurred which render the concealment of this marriage no longer decorous or possible, so he breaks it to his tutor, and conceals his young wife for the nonce in Polyglot’s private room. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context