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Definition of Indecorousness
1. Noun. A lack of decorum.
Generic synonyms: Improperness, Impropriety
Specialized synonyms: Unseemliness, Unbecomingness
Antonyms: Decorousness, Decorum
Derivative terms: Indecorous, Indecorous
Definition of Indecorousness
1. n. The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
Definition of Indecorousness
1. Noun. The quality of being indecorous. ¹
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Definition of Indecorousness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indecorousness
Literary usage of Indecorousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"I. indecorousness, indecency, impropriety, grossness, rudeness, incivility,
impoliteness, violation of propriety, ill-breeding, ill manners, want of decorum ..."
2. Annual Report by Boston Female Anti-slavery Society (1836)
"EDITORS,—I have seldom known a more flagrant act of impropriety, of indecorousness
and impolicy, than was perpetrated in several of our churches the last ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"It might be possible to forgive him everything else—all his actual sins, his
indecorousness, his low code of morals—but it is hard to forgive so great a ..."
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