indecorum
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The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language."
From Time Magazine Archive
Up the steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of the cartoons actually issued at the outbreak of the Civil War impress one with a sense of indecorum, of ill-timed levity.
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
It had had a tendency to look only at upper and middle-class life, to be conventional in its very indecorum, to be ironic, indirect, parabolical.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George
