Definitions for decorum

decorum de·co·rum

Spelling: [dih-kawr-uh m, -kohr-]
IPA: /dɪˈkɔr əm, -ˈkoʊr-/

Decorum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in decorum (cdemoru).

Definitions for decorum

noun

  1. dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
  2. the quality or state of being decorous, or exhibiting such dignified propriety; orderliness; regularity.
  3. Usually, decorums. an observance or requirement of polite society.

Origin of decorum

1560-70; Latin decōrum, noun use of neuter of decōrus decorous

Examples for decorum

Lady Sarah Lidhurst was precisely as sorry as decorum required.

They thanked him profusely for his public service, apologized for Republican hectoring, and complained about decorum.

At a certain point is past the line of decorum, but, you know, this is New York.

His victory made him uneasy, yet he saw no way of abandoning it with decorum.

And literary decorum, to elaborate, is almost the opposite of what decorum means in real life, which means etiquette basically.

Not to mention violating whatever sense of decorum is left in the halls of Congress.

Such a breach of delicacy and decorum never did I witness before.

It was then that he lost the decorum and restraint a man keeps up for his own sake.

But with this pope still up and about, and a lame duck at that, the old sense of decorum may not apply.

This evening some decorum was observed, there wasn't too much gorging.

Word Value for decorum
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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