In this paper, we prove that \(R=T_1+T_2\) is subscalar of order 8, where \(T_1,T_2\in \mathcal {L}(\mathcal {H})\) are complex symmetric or J-self-adjoint operators with property \((\delta )\) and \(T_1T_2=\lambda T_1\) for some \(\lambda \in \mathbb {C}\) . In particular, when \(\lambda =0\) , we further show that \(R+A\) is decomposable for every algebraic operator \(A\in \mathcal {L}(\mathcal {H})\) commuting with R. As an application, we verify that if \(T\in \mathcal {L}(\mathcal {H})\) is a C-symmetric operator with property \((\delta )\) and either u or Cv is an eigenvector of T, then \(T+u{\otimes }v\) is decomposable if and only if T is decomposable. We also study the decomposability of operator matrices.