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

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 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

Often at the funniest point you will see some small listener in an agony of endeavor to cloak the mirth which he—poor mite—fears to be indecorous.

From Stories to Tell to Children by Bryant, Sara Cone