DECOROUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decorously mean? 

• DECOROUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb DECOROUSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a proper and decorous manner

  Familiarity information: DECOROUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECOROUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a proper and decorous manner

Context example:

he pretended to be pleased and applauded decorously

Antonym:

indecorously (without decorousness)

Pertainym:

decorous (according with custom or propriety)

 Context examples 

The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was very gravely and decorously ordered, and on a sound system; with an appeal, in everything, to the honour and good faith of the boys, and an avowed intention to rely on their possession of those qualities unless they proved themselves unworthy of it, which worked wonders.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Though a very social man, I think Mr. Bhaer would have gone decorously away, and come again another day, but how could he, when Jo shut the door behind him, and bereft him of his hat?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)