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 Bryant, Sara Cone

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, he felt, to encourage further talk about it from the boy.

From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold

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