Example Sentences

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"The most noble grand" conducted the proceedings with tact and delicacy, never permitting any lapse into indecorousness.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

I have seen none of that greediness and indecorousness on which travellers have laid so much emphasis.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

As he was about to put them on he appeared suddenly struck with a sense of indecorousness in dressing himself in the school, and taking them on his arm to the porch resumed them outside.

From Cressy by Harte, Bret

But suddenly Toni became aware of the indecorousness of her conduct.

From The Making of a Soul by Rhodes, Kathlyn

Only the blinding effect of custom, indeed, could ever have shut good women's eyes to the shameful indecorousness of wedding ceremonial.

From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant