decorously
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editdecorously (comparative more decorously, superlative most decorously)
- In a decorous manner.
- 1965, James Baldwin, “The Rockpile”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press:
- […] below them, men and women, and boys and girls, sinners all, loitered; sometimes one of the church-members passed and saw them and waved. Then, for the moment that they waved decorously back, they were intimidated.