decorously

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• Also, I adore the devastating footnotes, wherein he eviscerates (decorously) his wayward predecessor, Andrew Field.

• The rather spindly hands are placed decorously over the groin.

• A canvas portrait of a woman with a Medusa-like thicket of hair shows a spray-paint can tucked decorously in her locks.

• I am witness that that ceremony is faithfully observed by both partiesand most gravely and decorously, too.

• I followed, first standing, and then decorously sitting down on the top of it.

• You can help me better by trying to behave decorously, and by keeping the other children quiet when they are in the drawing-room.

• They chatted volubly over this idiosyncrasy, and even laughed at it, but quite decorously so that our feelings might be spared.

• Her eyes hinted of a recent stormy past, but once more she was decorously apparelled.