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indecorous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | indecent, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward |
| Derivation | indecorousness |
indecorous behavior.
indecorous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | indelicate |
| Derivation | indecorousness |
indecorous behavior.
Examples of indecorous
indecorous
They perfected the Hollywood divorce as hideously indecorous spectacle.
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We're talking flash-lit shiny-faces, vaguely indecorous clothes and a general air of leeriness.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Madonna had been made to look dirty and indecorous.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The King's was famously an indecorous death.
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Judith and Holofernes divided Caravaggio's contemporaries, many of whom found the realism rude and indecorous.
From the telegraph.co.uk
This was not the scattered, polite applause of people who don't know it's indecorous to clap between movements.
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Bergen radiates certainly suits the character, who shares her husband's innate distaste for the indecorous business of glad-handing.
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Veroese was summoned before the Inquisition on the basis that his composition, for the refectory of a monastery, was indecorous.
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Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous.
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- Lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior"
- Indecent: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry"
- (indecorousness) indecorum: a lack of decorum
- Decorum (from the Latin: "right, proper") was a principle of classical rhetoric, poetry and theatrical theory that was about the fitness or otherwise of a style to a theatrical subject. The concept of decorum is also applied to prescribed limits of appropriate social behavior within set situations.
- Improper, immodest or indecent
- (indecorously) Not decorous; Conflicting with accepted standards of good conduct or good taste
- Unseemly, not proper
