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

But as government must be well informed by its officers, both military and naval in these points, it would be indecorous in me to enlarge on the subject.

From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Corry, Joseph

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

"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

In England old people enjoy fun, but it is held to be indecorous in them to afford amusement to others.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard