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
Often at the funniest point you will see some small listener in an agony of endeavour to cloak the mirth which he—poor mite—fears to be indecorous.
From Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Bryant, Sara Cone
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
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
She longed to rush back to the landing-place, but instinctively felt that such action on the part of a guest would be indecorous.
From In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date by Burnham, Clara Louise
