Surely it is better to have a decorous period of six months.
If so, it would be more decorous if they stood up and said so instead of disguising their views.
I hope that he will now maintain a decorous silence.
This wording as least, has the merit that it is, constitutionally, more decorous, as has been pointed out.
The aeroplane without greater speed is only a little more dangerous and less decorous than a horse and cart.
Surely we should be surprised that, on the whole, we maintain such decorous standards of public behaviour at any age.
Sometimes one can use it of a grown-up, saying that he should act in a generally decorous manner, not go to excess, restrain himself.
He takes seriously the ' conversation ' in ' criminal conversation ', contending that the very rise of ' criminal conversation ' cases bears the stamp of the fashion for thinking about decorous sociability.
