indecorum

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Joseph Warton mistook this effect for a failure of technique when he called Bramston "guilty of the indecorum and absurdity of making his hero laugh at himself and his own follies."

From The Man of Taste by Bramston, James

Without the music we can't understand that comic dance of the last century—its strange gravity and gaiety, its decorum or its indecorum.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George