be indecorous

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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

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

"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

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