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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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
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
The bylaws forbade "indecorum," wearing caps or hats at meetings, smoking and "violent language."
From Time Magazine Archive
Joseph Warton mistook this effect for a failure of technique when he called Bramston "guilty of the indecorum and absurdity of making his hero laugh at himself and his own follies."
From The Man of Taste by James Bramston
But it is regarded as an intolerable indecorum for a gentleman to drink more than a single glass, or a lady half a glass, at a time.
From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne
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