Those curious, consulting the yellowed files of the newspapers, can read little protests -- signed with _nom de plumes_ -- from young women, complaining that young men of their acquaintance, after calling decorously on them, would cross quite openly to the house over the way. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
After a long court battle, a settlement was reached—the merchant was granted membership and the cats were more decorously positioned. ❋ Kathy Reichs (2011)
Not even decorously crying, but great big jerky sobs. ❋ Michelle Pauli (2010)
I say he probably hangs on, but none too bravely or decorously and then slowly start to make an exit after this session. ❋ Unknown (2009)
When Stanwyck was presented with shameless melodrama, such as "Stella Dallas," she tended to circle it decorously and introduce touches of pathos before going in for the kill. ❋ Scott Eyman (2012)
Where Totoco is decorously austere, Jicaro is rather a boutique luxury retreat, complete with cool welcome drinks under sweeping palm fronds, fresh locally-grown coffee served on private decks, designer dinners, and a decadent Zen-like spa overlooking the still waters. ❋ Richard Bangs (2010)
And now here we are, encountering another sort of ground zero — this one economic — and my house is stacked with photocopied short stories whose paper clips fall to the floor after being decorously pulled at by the tiny teeth of cats. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the first chapter she enrols as a student of the Lincolnshire bike-builder Dave Yates, leaving five days later with her own blood-red, hand-welded racer which is pictured leaned decorously against a tree in Richmond Park. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Jim should have gone with my suggestion of depicting Euron in his most iconic scene: drunk and naked but for an eye-patch and a cloak decorously covering the family jewels, a wine cup in hand. ❋ Grrm (2010)
Steve and I and several passengers step downstairs to investigate, and stumble into a full-blown birthday bash, rich with cranberry juice and vodka, dancing, banjo strumming, serenading, and Ilona, standing decorously in the center of it all in a white dress soaking in the spotlight. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)
Heavily laden, the trailer no longer bounces but follows decorously. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Rather than conserve the economy, these regressives want to resurrect the classical economics of the 1920s -- the view that economic downturns are best addressed by doing nothing until the "rot" is purged out of the system as Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary, so decorously put it. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Wallace Nutting's hand-colored photographs of carefully staged "Colonial" interiors with decorously posed costumed inhabitants had popularized the myth by 1910. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2011)
The protesters have largely been very decorously behaved. ❋ Unknown (2011)
We know what Montaigne said, and what the records show, and then Bakewell falls decorously silent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Example 1: It is just a weak [malleable] metal that fuses the [wires] in the cable to the metal hardware [input] port to create a connection flow, and normally an engineer designs an external support to hold them together, part of which is that thick plastic area at the end of the cable where it connects to the hardware input unit; which is the device [connector] and its own external support; but on this shitty Chinese Display Port ([DP]) cable that was entirely [decorational]... The actual wire fuse took place in the middle of the box that was supposed to be the hardware input unit, which was actually just decorational as well... It has only the DP connector and not the rest of the device that supports the strength of it, with nothing but copperfoil (10x weaker than [tinfoil] or paper) wrapped around it and a big plastic shell popped together around the whole thing to make it look like something that was engineered properly from the outside while on the inside being designed at the engineering level I had at 10 years old.
Example 2:
Person 1 says, "The phone case I ordered has [gears] on it."
Person 2 says, "Wow, are they functional?"
Person 1 says, "No, they're just decorational." ❋ MPWHart (2016)
The [decor] in [the family] room is just [awful]! ❋ TeironTV (2017)
[Anne] is having a decoring party this [sat], are you gonna [be there]? ❋ Killer Kurvz (2009)
“[have some] decorism about yourself” ❋ Unknown_ballsack (2022)
[I was gonna] [go round] [my girlfriend's] tonight but the decorators are in... ❋ Catcatcat (2005)
[eric] [decorated] [the bathroom] at players ❋ Sailorned (2007)
I [decorated] the [books] in [the library]. ❋ CraigZ (2005)
A [school of fish], a murder a crows, [a flock of seagulls], a decor of [poofs]. ❋ Bunsen Burner (2006)
Girl 1: That hat is so pretty! Are the [zippers] on it [functional]?
Girl 2: No, they're just [decorational]. ❋ Captain.Cupcake (2010)
Man, my [sugar daddy] wants me to visit him in his [office] every week, but [I want money] to pay for my clothes so I have to be decorous. ❋ Rocketchocolate (2017)
