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
There is one particular in which I have had wrong done me, and it may not be indecorous in me to call your attention to it.
From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various
This was evidently an example of the way in which they learned to be indecorous up here.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
It would be indecorous in me to be over-awed by menaces, or to yield to compulsion.
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George
Often at the funniest point you will see some small listener in an agony of endeavor to cloak the mirth which he—poor mite—fears to be indecorous.
From Stories to Tell to Children by Bryant, Sara Cone
