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
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
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
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
There is one particular in which I have had wrong done me, and it may not be indecorous in me to call your attention to it.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
