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
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 Joseph Corry
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 Sara Cone Bryant
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
It would be indecorous, he felt, to encourage further talk about it from the boy.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
