indecorum
Americannoun
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indecorous behavior or character.
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something indecorous.
noun
Etymology
Origin of indecorum
1565–75; < Latin, noun use of neuter of indecōrus indecorous
Example Sentences
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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
Love would direct the whole, and the indecorum of conventionality, of force, of falsehood and hypocrisy, would vanish.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Such a society is the determined enemy of all pedantry, eccentricity, and exaggeration, of all austerity or indecorum, of one-sided enthusiasm or devotion to a single idea.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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