Decorum - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Suitable to a character or to the time place and occasion marked with decorum becoming proper seemly befitting as a decorous speech decorous behavior a decorous dress for a judge...
Decorum
Propriety of manner or conduct grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to ones own character or to the place and occasion decency of conduct seemliness that which is seemly or suitable...
Effrontery
Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum insulting presumptuousness shameless boldness barefaced assurance...
Etiquette
The forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion conventional decorum ceremonial code of polite society...
Indecorousness
The quality of being indecorous lack of decorum...
Saucy
Showing impertinent boldness or pertness transgressing the rules of decorum treating superiors with contempt impudent insolent as a saucy fellow...
Censor
Censor. A person who regulates or prohibits the publication of any newspaper or the production of any play or any part thereof. There is ordinarily no censorship of the press in England; but by ss. 12 and 14 of the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), a copy of every new stage play must, before it is acted for hire at any theatre in Great Britain, be sent to the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, who will issue a license for its production or forbid it for the 'preservation of good manners, decorum, or the public peace.' See THEATRE; CINEMATOGRAPH.Roman Law. A Roman officer who acted as a census taker, assess or, and reviewer of public morals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
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