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Перевод: decorous

[прилагательное]
приличный; пристойный; соблюдающий приличия

Тезаурус:

1. It was normal for women to write about love, but they were expected always to be decorous.
2. Above the decorous chat, the familiar bray of Peregrine's voice could be heard.
3. As for the rhyme, these are poems that characteristically celebrate the decorous in private and public life, and the verse must be in keeping; rhyme, when it occurs, is one of several concessions to decorum.
4. He soon spotted several well-dressed young women who strolled up and down their particular stretch of pavement, faltering and looking up with decorous winsomeness when a likely man passed.
5. When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady, she went up to them at a more decorous pace, and joined in their unfeeling laughter.
6. "The crematorium chapel with pseudo-altar, badly-canned music, sliding doors or false-bottomed catafalque, gothic chimney stack and other offences against a decorous leave-taking."
7. Not surprisingly, the Emperor preferred rowing quietly on the lake to scrambling up and down rocks, though sometimes both sovereigns would organize excursions, taking their guests in carriages on more decorous visits to the surrounding countryside.
8. The chronologically first and formally most decorous of his critical books, The Spirit of Romance (originally 1910), can very profitably be used - I speak from experience - as a manual for able undergraduates; especially if taken along with Confucius to Cummings , the anthology that many decades later Pound compiled along with Marcella Spann.
9. But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson's "objectism", any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate, whose example makes him surpass himself.
10. The Galleries will bridge the snarling ring road, which will be buried in decorous tunnels.
11. Eliot and Empson take off their poet's hat, and wear a critic's hat - that at least is the decorous illusion which, by their style and procedures, they try to maintain; Pound and Dryden on the contrary wear the poet's hat all the time, even when they criticize.
12. She excelled in playing ruthlessly calculating bitch-goddesses, clawing their way to wealth, security and power: eg as Mildred, the sluttish Cockney waitress who enslaves sensitive Leslie Howard in John Cromwell's adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (1934), the role in which she made her reputation; as Jezebel, flouting the decorous conventions of the antebellum South in William Wyler's 1938 melodrama of that name; and as the indefatigably scheming Regina, one of her most memorable creations, in Wyler's 1941 film version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes.
13. He frequently attended church, and demanded strict attention and decorous behaviour from his court while at worship.