Example Sentences

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The message is as indecorously blatant and as urgent today as it was three decades ago.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2016

Someone laid out candles to spell out UCC on the ground, but several of the candle holders caught on fire and had to be stamped out indecorously.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2015

It took time, but as Guyana became a republic, the 73-year-old statue of Tennyson's patron, Queen Victoria, was hoisted indecorously from its place in front of the Supreme Court building in Georgetown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride.

From Time Magazine Archive

His own heart thumped almost indecorously at the sight.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley