Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking propriety or decorum. synonym: unseemly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not decorous; violating propriety or the accepted rules of conduct; unseemly.
- Synonyms Unbecoming, unseemly, improper, rude, unmannerly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
improper ,immodest orindecent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
- adjective lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
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Examples
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate.
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Is doing it on the national stage less indecorous?
Dyane Jean François: Breaking News: The President Has Feelings? Dyane Jean François 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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In American fiction, at least, the opposition between the hulking, indecorous novel and the delicate short story just doesn't very cogently apply.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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