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
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 Sara Cone Bryant
We cannot follow them and listen to their conversation—that would be indecorous.
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
This was evidently an example of the way in which they learned to be indecorous up here.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
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 St. George Tucker
