14 example sentences using decorum.
Decorum used in a sentence
Decorum in a sentence as a noun
I'm not a priss, but how about a bit of decorum, please?
The judge will enforce the decorum of his courtroom, and you don't want to be a lawyer on the receiving end of that.
Everyone is too polite or concerned with HN decorum to say so but you're a ******* *******.
First of all, I tend to agree with the sibling posts accusing you of failing to maintain scholarly decorum.
The womb exists for good reason; scaffolds exist for good reason; decorum on first dates exists for good reason.
Members of my generation tended to exhibit more tact and decorum.
You do remember they were hula hooping, right?That is not a typical example of office decorum.
Can we not criticize companies and people without acting like a bunch of 12 year-olds who just figured out some cuss words?Where is the decorum and mutual respect?
In this case, Twitter has revealed two distinct groups that are not permitted to interact directly for reasons of decorum and liability.
When your office environment involves hula-hooping but doesn't sell hula-hoops, you've already thrown office decorum in the toilet.
I think it is precisely because they might be domain experts at some level that they should behave with decorum and refrain from making comments without a full stack of the necessary data.
This is the real advice at the very end: "But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory, and initiative over decorum.
The moral of this anecdote is in the last line: "the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory, and initiative over decorum.
Maciej's comment was not a high point of Hacker News decorum and in that instance probably degraded the site slightly, but no reasonable person could have looked at 'idlewords comment record and not come to the conclusion that Maciej is someone we want on the site.
Decorum definitions
propriety in manners and conduct
See also: decorousness