Translation for 'decorous' from English to Italian
ADJ   decorous | more decorous | most decorous
SYNO becoming | comely | comme il faut | ...
decoroso {adj}decorous
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Translation for 'decorous' from English to Italian

decorous
decoroso {adj}
Usage Examples English
  • Wikipedia [8238744]';document.getElementById('wpsnip8238744').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> The specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek "eukosmos" meaning "decorous" or "well-adorned".
  • Wikipedia [7032606]';document.getElementById('wpsnip7032606').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">This was the Saénz Peña draft which ultimately won out over Blaine's: "And without anger or defiance, but with prudence, the union of the cautious and decorous peoples of Hispanic America defeated the Northamerican plan for continental and compulsory arbitration over the republics of America, with a continuous and unappealable tribunal resident in Washington.
  • Wikipedia [6356248]';document.getElementById('wpsnip6356248').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">The custom he initiated – which set both a decorous minimum and a limit on ostentation – has been followed by observant Jews ever since.
  • Wikipedia [5141607]';document.getElementById('wpsnip5141607').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">The period known as the High Renaissance represents the culmination of the goals of the earlier period, namely the accurate representation of figures in space rendered with credible motion and an appropriately decorous style.
  • Wikipedia [4432317]';document.getElementById('wpsnip4432317').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> Regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his generation, he was noted for his "decorous piano playing" and "interpretive depth".

  • Wikipedia [2575217]';document.getElementById('wpsnip2575217').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> Santi went on to contribute a "Sacra Conversazione" for the Ognissanti and painted two altarpieces for Santa Croce in Florence: a crowded but monumental "Resurrection" (1570–74), and a creatively inspired and decorous "Supper at Emmaus" (1574).
  • Wikipedia [21274878]';document.getElementById('wpsnip21274878').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> In December 1878 he began to manage with the Spanish high command a decorous exit for the then colonel Ramón Leocadio Bonachea, who was still fighting in the jurisdiction of Sancti Spíritus without any possibility of success.
  • Wikipedia [202655]';document.getElementById('wpsnip202655').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">The story put out about the wedding veil was that decorous brides were naturally too timid to show their faces in public until they were married.
  • Wikipedia [19741871]';document.getElementById('wpsnip19741871').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">On 14 June 1837, when they returned to Naples, Leopardi died of heart dropsy, as Ranieri reported – even if there is a strong suspicion that the poet died of cholera, and that Ranieri lied in order to hide a less decorous death.
  • Wikipedia [16539847]';document.getElementById('wpsnip16539847').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> A historical myth has arisen that it was customary and decorous for any candidate for a bishopric to decline the office twice by use of the expression, only a third use of which would indicate a true intention of refusal.

  • Wikipedia [15804349]';document.getElementById('wpsnip15804349').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> A version for Mandarin markets with a more decorous cover showing only Mok's face was released for mainland China and Taiwan, though Mok's first album specifically created for, and achieving great success in the Mandarin markets, did not come till the following year with "To Be".
  • Wikipedia [15522092]';document.getElementById('wpsnip15522092').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> The Mahrakah was a decorous event, where meals would be followed by prolonged discussions on serious state matters.
  • Wikipedia [14266297]';document.getElementById('wpsnip14266297').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">Coralli's choreography provided Grisi with two striking dances: a "pas de songe" that culminated in her daring leap from a six-foot-high platform into her partner's arms, and a "pas d'abeille", a decorous striptease prompted by the invasion of an imaginary bee.
  • Wikipedia [142598]';document.getElementById('wpsnip142598').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">The decorous sweep of the pavane suited the new more sober Spanish-influenced courtly manners of 16th-century Italy. It appears in dance manuals in England, France, and Italy.
  • Wikipedia [1350514]';document.getElementById('wpsnip1350514').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">His main themes include the duality of human nature: sometimes dramatized as the disparity between a character's decorous social persona and inner corruption, and sometimes as a conflict between two characters (often brothers) who embody the salient aspects of both – light and dark, flesh and spirit.

  • Wikipedia [12615974]';document.getElementById('wpsnip12615974').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> The side-wheeler was tethered close to old Tiburon's less decorous Main Street at the site of today's Woodlands supermarket.
  • Wikipedia [11496547]';document.getElementById('wpsnip11496547').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">During the 18th century, the conventions of Augustan drama encouraged far less intense, more sentimentalised and decorous depictions of Ophelia's madness and sexuality.
  • Wikipedia [1066675]';document.getElementById('wpsnip1066675').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';"> She becomes famous for music and other decorous entertainments.
  • Wikipedia [10215909]';document.getElementById('wpsnip10215909').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">Even a decorous institution such as the public library has moments of controversy and excitement.
  • Wikipedia [8512289]';document.getElementById('wpsnip8512289').style='cursor:auto; background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding:6px 10px; margin:1em 0 1em 0';">This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who are exasperated with Maria for being a "flibbertigibbet"; they say that she is frolicsome for the decorous and austere life at the Abbey.

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