indecorum

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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

The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language."

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

In the excitement of professional altercation with counsel respecting the ages of certain persons concerned in a suit, he committed the indecorum of saying aloud, "I'll lay you a bottle of wine."

From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy

The subordinate character is never guilty of the indecorum of praising his principal.

From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel