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indecorum
[ in-di-kawr-uhm, -kohr- ]
noun
- indecorous behavior or character.
- something indecorous.
indecorum
/ ˌɪndɪˈkɔːrəm /
noun
- indecorous behaviour or speech; unseemliness
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Word History and Origins
Origin of indecorum1
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Example Sentences
This indecorum excited angry curiosity, and drew down stern remonstrance.
To reconcile to the virtuous spectator this indecorum, most calamitous woes are first depicted as the consequence of illicit love.
"The indecorum, Miss Cartwright, has been already committed," said Rosalind.
And this doubt is strengthened by the singular indecorum of his having addressed himself to Dr. Maltby.
As a judge of the Supreme Court his incursion into the field of politics, unheralded, but not unprecedented, was an indecorum.
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