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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking propriety or decorum. synonym: unseemly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not decorous; violating propriety or the accepted rules of conduct; unseemly.
- Synonyms Unbecoming, unseemly, improper, rude, unmannerly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
improper ,immodest orindecent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society
- adjective lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct
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Examples
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate.
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Is doing it on the national stage less indecorous?
Dyane Jean François: Breaking News: The President Has Feelings? Dyane Jean François 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
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In American fiction, at least, the opposition between the hulking, indecorous novel and the delicate short story just doesn't very cogently apply.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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To exist in a modern world, we must often ignore its indecorous parts: the rivers of waste we produce, the intersexual fish we create.
Pipe Dreams Luke O 2009
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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Their poetry is garish, troublingly content-free, indecorous, and emotionless.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011
Related Words
synonyms (92)
Words with the same meaning
- Doric
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abominable
- atrocious
- barbaric
- barbarous
- cacophonous
- chintzy
- clumsy
- coarse
- criminal
- crude
- delinquent
- deviant
- discourteous
- disgraceful
- doggerel
- dysphemistic
- evil
- graceless
- gross
- hardly the thing
- harsh
- ignominious
- ill-bred
- ill-mannered
- illegal
- immodest
- impolite
- improper
- impure
- in bad taste
- inappropriate
- inconcinnate
- inconcinnous
- incorrect
- indecent
- indelicate
- indiscreet
- inelegant
- infamous
- infelicitous
- irregular
- loose
- low
- malodorous
- not done
- not the thing
- off-base
- off-color
- offensive
- out-of-line
- outlandish
- ridiculous
- rough
- rude
- sacrilegious
- scandalous
- shameful
- shameless
- sinful
- tasteless
- terrible
- unbecoming
- unbefitting
- unbeseeming
- uncivil
- uncourtly
- uncouth
- undecorous
- undignified
- undue
- uneuphonious
- unfelicitous
- unfit
- unfitting
- ungenteel
- ungodly
- ungraceful
- unlawful
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unrighteous
- unseemly
- unsuitable
- untasteful
- untoward
- vulgar
- wicked
- wrong
- wrongful
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