indecorum

American  

[in-di-kawr-uhm, -kohr-] / ˌɪn dɪˈkɔr əm, -ˈkoʊr- /

noun

1. indecorous behavior or character.

2. something indecorous.

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indecorum British  

/ ˌɪndɪˈkɔːrəm /

noun

1. indecorous behaviour or speech; unseemliness

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Etymology

Origin of indecorum

1565–75; < Latin, noun use of neuter of indecōrus indecorous

Example Sentences

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

Without the music we can't understand that comic dance of the last century—its strange gravity and gaiety, its decorum or its indecorum.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

But it may be objected that his introduction into this scene is a piece of indecorum in the author.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol