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indecorum

[in-di-kawr-uhm, -kohr-] / ˌɪn dɪˈkɔr əm, -ˈkoʊr- /


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

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 W. Y. Sellar

After all, he gave umbrage only to the priests and the doctors of the law, against whom he declaimed with the greatest indecorum.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach




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