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What does decorous mean?

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We're not just talking about a polite and decorous way to find a New Year's date in a matter of mere weeks.
Embarrassment concerns lighter social gaffes and violations of decorous comportment.
Such a decorous manner of doing business is of course, oh so Edinburgh and oh so out of date.
After all, she'd essentially refused to look him in the eye earlier, deciding to be proper and decorous instead of curious.
Only after victory does he begin, clearly on the advice of his handlers, to adopt a more decorous manner.
The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted.

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