| 单词 | decorous |
| 释义 | dec·o·rous < when off the air are as decorous and restrained as they are volcanic while performing — G.S.Perry > < the decorous symbols of Victorian art — Ellen Glasgow > < a courtier's laugh, decorous, brief, and not too hearty — J.H.Wheelwright > Synonyms: < we, of course, maintained a most decorous exterior; and hence, by all the elderly people of the village, were doubtless regarded as pattern young men — Herman Melville > < the tête-à-tête had proved decorous in the extreme, and he had returned the willful maiden to her doorstep without so much as brushing her lips with his — Herman Wouk > decent, as here considered detached from matters of sexual morality, suggests the fitting, appropriate, or accustomed, according to good taste or form < the dead face on the pillow, which Dolly had smoothed with decent care — George Eliot > < nobody cares a straw for the internal administration of native states so long as oppression and crime are kept within decent limits — Rudyard Kipling > seemly stresses lack of discord with propriety and taste and may also suggest a pleasing appearance or manner < for generations the Twyfords had drunk tea here at a seemly hour — Sinclair Lewis > < it was reckoned to him a major sin that he forgot his manners, for must not the Lord's work be carried on in seemly fashion, and the money changers be scourged from the temple politely? — V.L.Parrington > proper stresses unquestioned conformity with social conventions, sometimes a stiff or prissy conformity < Henchard's creed was that proper young girls wrote ladies' hand — Thomas Hardy > < but it is only proper that you first tell your husband distinctly that you are without any [money], and see what he will do — Thomas Hardy > nice in this sense suggests a complete and choice correctness in matters social < the small provincial gentry of the West, as drawn by Miss Austen … are nice in their gentility almost to a fault — G.M.Trevelyan > < we've always been religious, Mother, and nice people in Queenborough go to church no matter what they believe — Ellen Glasgow > comme il faut, more common in the 19th century than the 20th, implies complete correctness in polite society < this remark, if the young lady had made it, would have been perfectly comme il faut; but, being made by the young gentleman, it was a most heinous and irremissible offense — T.L.Peacock > demure stresses a modest demeanor more than a staid propriety < but lowering her glance unexpectedly till her dark eyelashes seemed to rest against her white cheeks she presented a perfectly demure aspect — Joseph Conrad > < Leora appeared as his assistant, very pretty and demure in a nurse's costume — Sinclair Lewis > |
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