How To Use Indecorous In A Sentence

  • Court society viewed the handling of money, though ever more widespread, as an indecorous gesture, which it affected to believe had not yet infiltrated the most intimate corners of its own world.
  • This robust, indecorous, and accommodating vernacular tradition was not universally hostile to the spirit or methods of Renaissance classicism: it simply took from them what it wanted and adapted it to local practice.
  • 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
  • a profusion of thin circles, called sambo, made of the giraffe's tail-hairs bound round by the thinnest iron or copper wire; whilst the men at home wear loin-cloths, but in the field, or whilst travelling, simply hang a goat-skin over their shoulders, exposing at least three-fourths of their body in a rather indecorous manner. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
  • First, an indecorous alphabet, which I have no idea about, other than it features descriptions of words that don't normally get written about (spicy chicken pasta, raisins, lard, creme egg).
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  • Niece and (kunject a bit now!) our own familiars, Billyhealy, Bally-hooly and Bullyhowley, surprised in an indecorous position by the Sigurd Sigerson Sphygmomanometer Society for bled-prusshers. Finnegans Wake
  • Even the females, it would appear, have some of them of late years learned the habit of drinking grog from the English sailors; and Captain Dillon gives an account of a priestess, who visited him on board the "Besearch," and who, having among several other somewhat indecorous requests, demanded a tumbler of rum, quaffed off the whole at a draught as soon as it was set before her. John Rutherford, the White Chief
  • They make their way to the vinyl-padded folding chairs, which let out a rather indecorous sound when they sit down.
  • The kids are all resourceful and responsible and pitch in financially when needed, while dad is an incontinent, inveterate, indecorous inebriate. Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011
  • He felt that there was something indecorous in her proposal.
  • Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
  • I was in the audience when you missed the shift and muttered something indecorous, and really it was almost inaudible.
  • He was probably going to lecture her on her indecorous behavior and the scandal it would cause.
  • I take this less as a mandate for medieval masochism than an indecorous call to embrace our own authentic experience.
  • Brummell and Byron did, Robinson and Caroline employed gendered expectations of indecorous feminine behavior to straddle the divide between woman as décor and woman as actant by toying with the doubling nature of revealing fabrics, suggestive accoutrements, or outlandish getups. Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text
  • There are exceptions, which it would be indecorous, perhaps even counter-productive, to name.
  • Too intimate a portrayal of a virtuous Spanish woman was considered indecorous, and perhaps being portrayed itself was perceived as contributing to vanity.
  • Wild horses, however, would not persuade me to recount the precise sequence of events that led up to this happy, if somewhat indecorous, conclusion.
  • In Italy, Spain and France it is considered indecorous to reveal too much skin anywhere but in the water.
  • ‘By venting such indecorous spleen, some might consider that I am indulging in the ‘politics of envy’, as it is called.
  • Fred Wye bestowed a somewhat indecorous caress on his wife, caught Miss Rondel's eye, and reddened. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • But, when treating of a grave subject, what can be more silly or indecorous than such language as the following -- "Ye are raised on high by the engine of Jesus Christ, which is the cross, and ye are drawn by the rope, which is the Holy Ghost, and your pulley is your faith. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
  • But some of the writers the regime is now grooming to take power look a lot like insurgents themselves: indecorous, sometimes indecent, not snobby about pop culture.
  • Their singular talents die indecorous deaths; their individuality is silently squelched under the rigid and coercive iron heel of authority.
  • The British press has been atypically lenient in its review of his atrociously indecorous behaviour.
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  • This woman's behavior is indecorous and unprofessional, and when an employee is ‘scared to death,’ it is probably harassment.
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  • He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker. Israel Potter
  • Jesters and jugglers were not awanting, nor was the occasion of the assembly supposed to render the exercise of their profession indecorous or improper. Ivanhoe
  • When Hanuman chided him for his indecorous attire, he smiled and said nothing. THE BROKEN GOD
  • ‘In those days’, Hancock noted, ‘it was considered indecorous for angels of mercy to appear otherwise than gray-haired and spectacled’.
  • This robust, indecorous, and accommodating vernacular tradition was not universally hostile to the spirit or methods of Renaissance classicism: it simply took from them what it wanted and adapted it to local practice.
  • The shameless individual does not feel that painful emotion that arises out of the consciousness of something dishonourable, ridiculous, or indecorous in his/her conduct.
  • Grilled but i am not awry in indecorously electric knife sharpeners a saprobe that fimbria the dramamine of countersubversion incorporated and magnifico sporozoan pizzazz memorably. fred turnstone eponymy be hoosgow them up in the axile frock, with valedictory weigher and photogravure the way they do in theosophism, tenet. Rational Review
  • For reasons it would be indecorous to disclose, I've been more than usually preoccupied with sex and relationships this month.
  • Cycling and painting are quite separate means of self-expression and their combination is both incongruous and indecorous.

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