be indecorous

Example Sentences

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She made it safe for a woman to be indecorous, though in the process she also helped redefine not just what was acceptable but also what was beautiful.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016

"This would cease to be an excess of power merely, sire; it would be indecorous and unseemly."

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

I have half a mind to look again for that mole, but I suppose it would be indecorous.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

It would be indecorous in me to be over-awed by menaces, or to yield to compulsion.

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

This was evidently an example of the way in which they learned to be indecorous up here.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne