indecorum

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Up the steps of the Royal Palace in Bucharest bounded Dr. Maniu with a stride swift and confident to the point of indecorum.

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Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.

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The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language."

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It must be reluctantly admitted that some of these ebullitions have bordered closely on what we may be forgiven for describing as indecorum.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 by Various

Such a society is the determined enemy of all pedantry, eccentricity, and exaggeration, of all austerity or indecorum, of one-sided enthusiasm or devotion to a single idea.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.