decorously

adv

decorously

adv

UK /ˈdɛkɹəsli/

Etymology From decorous + -ly.

1

In a decorous manner.

[…] 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.1965, James Baldwin, “The Rockpile”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial Press:

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