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Definition of Indecorous

1. Adjective. Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct. "Indecorous behavior"

2. Adjective. Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society. "Moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"

Definition of Indecorous

1. a. Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct.

Definition of Indecorous

1. Adjective. improper, immodest or indecent ¹

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Definition of Indecorous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indecorous

indecipherability indecipherable indecipherably indecision indecisions indecisive indecisively indecisiveness indecisivenesses indeclinability

indeclinable indeclinables indeclinably indecomposability indecomposable indecorous (current term) indecorously indecorousness indecorum indecorums

indeed indeede indeedie indeedy indef indefatigabilities indefatigability indefatigable indefatigableness indefatigably

Literary usage of Indecorous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of His Late Father and Friends by Henry Angelo (1830)
"As to highly indecorous, it was shuffling with me not to comply with my request. Enough, however, of this haughty fellow. At my return to Bath I received ..."

2. The Bookman (1915)
"To laugh out loud at one of these heroic puppet-plays would be as indecorous as to indulge in laughter during a ..."

3. The Life of John Jay: With Selections from His Correspondence and by William Jay (1833)
"It is true, they are less indecorous and less clamorous than they have been. How few of their leaders have abandoned their errors, their associations, ..."

4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"To checke at cheese, to heart at maw, at mack to passe the time, Hence it was, probably, that it was deemed an indecorous game for grave personages : At ..."

5. The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1900)
"... His Character—History of Vassoi —Comtesse de Verrue and her Romance with M. de Savoie—A Race of Dwarfs—An indecorous Incident—Death of M. de La Trappe. ..."

6. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Any thing more were indecorous ; a genteel stomach could not bear it: Carmine knows the exact proportions of the dose, and would not venture to administer ..."

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