be indecorous
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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
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 John Richard Greene
She longed to rush back to the landing-place, but instinctively felt that such action on the part of a guest would be indecorous.
From In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date by Clara Louise Burnham
Her singing sounded like silken raiment among sackcloth, and she lowered her voice, feeling it to be indecorous and out of place in the antique hymn.
From Evelyn Innes by George (George Augustus) Moore
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