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
It would be indecorous to applaud the winking harness, the perfectly lacquered panels, and the liveried saises.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard
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 Moore, George (George Augustus)
It would be indecorous, he felt, to encourage further talk about it from the boy.
From The Damnation of Theron Ware by Frederic, Harold
It would be indecorous for any warrior, while she is in this predicament, to show her any attentions of gallantry.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Flint, Timothy
