Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an indecorous manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an indecorous manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Not decorous.
  • adverb Conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without decorousness

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Examples

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

  • A few years ago, when it became evident that Brown -- California's attorney general, a former two-term governor of the state, two-term mayor of gritty Oakland, and two-time runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination -- was seriously contemplating a return to the office he held as a young man in the 1970s and early 1980s, I asked him why he wanted to return to what I rather indecorously described as the clown show.

    William Bradley: Why on Earth Would Jerry Brown Want to Be Governor of California? William Bradley 2010

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