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
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
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?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
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
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 Tucker, St. George
