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
Often at the funniest point you will see some small listener in an agony of endeavour to cloak the mirth which he—poor mite—fears to be indecorous.
From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone
Her singing sounded like silken raiment among sackcloth, and she lowered her voice, feeling it to be indecorous and out of place in the antique hymn.
From Evelyn Innes by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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
We cannot follow them and listen to their conversation—that would be indecorous.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
